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Wednesday 30 |
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Forcing the flower
The flower just wasn’t opening like I thought it should.
“I’ll help it,” I thought. So carefully, I pried the blush colour petals open.
Perhaps you have tried to force a flower to open before it is ready. It didn’t work for me, that’s for sure, to which the photo (attached) will testify.
So often I am impatient with how things are going, and I just have to get involved and try to ‘help’ speed up the process. I am an action person, so have always prided myself on not procrastinating; rather taking the bull by the horns and jumping in.
Forcing this flower to open clearly brought home the message to me that, even though it is ok to be an action person, it is also wise to be patient. There is a rhythm, and a time, for everything.
My impatience helps nothing!
“He has made everything beautiful in its time.” Ecclesiastes 3:11
Thank you, Lord, You make everything beautiful, in Your time.
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Several
days had passed since I bought the beautiful big, plump rose. I cut the
stem at an angle, under water (as the directions suggested). Then I placed
it in a special bud vase, and set it on my husband’s washstand. Ben loves
roses, and although this flower didn’t have much fragrance, it was lovely to
look at.