Flower Garden Goodness

Sometimes goodness seems shattered in this broken world of ours

Until we linger in the friendly fellowship of flowers

Sometimes we find it hard to reconcile life's highs and lows

Until we stop to listen to the counsel of a rose

Sometimes with good intent we rush headlong into the day

Without taking a moment to 'behold lilies' and pray

Sometimes, the path of righteousness would be a doleful due

Save for the flower gardens it is bound to draw us to/through...

Some of the greatest sermons that the heart has ever heard

Are preached from petal-pulpits without uttering a word

© Janet Martin

Matt.6:25-34 BSB

25Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?f

28And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first the kingdom of Godg and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.