FLOWERS
On days when sadness fills my heart…when the world outside seems so hard
I like take a walk around our neighborhood and look for flowers in the yards.
No matter how much misery in the world I see…
no matter how much hopelessness and despair abound…
flowers help remind me there is still beauty to be found….
Flowers remind me to stay optimistic everywhere I go…
because everyone who plants a flower holds the hope that it will grow
When is see in a garden how the different colors blend
flowers helps me visualize a world in which discrimination and prejudice will end.
And as flowers beautify the Earth…and bring the world a little harmony…
It’s inevitable some of that beauty and harmony will find their way to me.
When I think of the difficult road ahead and am at a loss at how to proceed…
flowers are there to remind me…they started out as but a seed.
After all…look at all a flower endures…through rain and sleet and even snow
and still, somehow, in Spring and Summer that little seedling grows…
I always feel a little better after my walk around our neighborhood
no matter what troubles in the world are brewing…
because in the flowers I find comfort knowing….
what one seed is capable of doing.
Yes, I see each flower that’s been planted as a miracle
who’s destiny is predefined…
and in every flower I discover…
I see hope for humankind.
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