Tuesday, August 16, 2022

If we as gardeners only focus on what isn't growing or blooming

the way we had hoped or planned for,

we would miss what is!

So too in the garden of Life!

It's been years since I've grown snow-on-the-mountain flowers

and it's the first time for larkspur,

(which could be why I am sharing SO many larkspur-shots)😅

thanks to some seeds given to me

last Christmas from one of my gardener-friends.

I am delighting in their splendor!

however, I thought the larkspur would be taller than the snow-on-the-mountain

so the tiered flower-garden isn't quite what I had pictured,

but we enjoy what grew rather than what didn't...

like the straw-flower seeds I planted behind the marigold.

This sunflower below, as it grew larger began to obstruct the passage and the view in the arbor...

so I snipped it off for a centerpiece!

Here's to each of us to making the most of Today's 'garden'.!

Futile to wallow in regret

That no thought can undo

Better to focus on the Yet

Now runs its fingers through

Futile to pine for what once was

Leave Bygone on its shelf

And focus on what Is because

No day repeats itself

Futile to wish for what is not

With longing and lament

Better to give the best we’ve got

Before Today is spent

Futile to waste away in want

Better to kneel in prayer

And ask God to vanquish the taunt

Of defeat and despair

Futile to bear yesterday’s loss

Or surf Past’s frozen tide

Better to take up today’s cross

And trust God to provide

“‎"The best of men are just men at best.― Alistair Begg