Sunday Sentiments: Beauty and Potential

 

The spring of 2020 was the last time I planted flowers at our home…until yesterday.

            Oh how I missed them.

            Yesterday morning I set the alarm for five a.m. so I could watch the coronation. (Dozed off a few times but caught most of it!) And as soon as the main event was over, I hopped in the car to pick up the remainder of the plants we needed for this year’s flower event.

            Ryan was trying to do some yard chores before he went to volunteer at an event, so I was on my own for flower shopping. I punched the address to a local spot into my GPS and headed out. I was unprepared for the size of the flower shop and spent the first few moments wandering with my mouth gaping at all the beauty around me.

            I wanted to take pictures of everything, but I refrained. And every time I thought I had found the end of it, there was more to see.

            After appreciating the beauty for a while, I had to narrow down the choices to the few things I wanted to buy for our home. It was a hard choice!

            Ryan and I worked for several hours to spruce up the outside of the house, and I took my time filling the flower pots we’ve owned for years. They live in a new spot now, but the familiar beauty of each planter made me smile as I worked the dirt and placed the plants inside.

            My favorite part of planting flowers each year is seeing the way they fill out and grow. I surveyed my work today and wondered if a few of the planters should have had more inside. Then I remembered that with time, what I added will grow, spread, and bloom, and it will look fuller and richer in just a few weeks than it looks right now.

            Between the beauty in front of me and the reminders of potential, my day was rich in lessons of the heart.

            I’m looking forward to watching the beauty unfold in our planters this summer, but I’m also looking forward to the heart-lesson of seeing potential in others as it grows and unfolds!