A couple weeks ago, we were shocked to look out on the back patio where we have a hanging basket of flowers to discover that the flowers had died. We swore that we had just watered the hanging basket, yet the entire basket had dried up.
Alas, I put the basket on the ground to await the next garbage day. It was nearing the end of the summer and even though the flowers were sure to have several weeks to continue offering beauty, it was a nice basket of flowers for the majority of the summer. Well, I forgot about the basket of flowers when garbage day came, and it wasn't until the next week that I remembered to head back to the patio to pick up the basket and toss it. To my surprise, two flowers had, apparently, revived themselves and had two flowers and several buds going. I was shocked! So, I hung the basket back up and we are now enjoying the hope that something beautiful can come from something that was so hopeless.
I will take this reminder with me as I head into the remainder of this year. Even though so much has gone wrong and so much is not the way it was supposed to be, we can create newness and beauty. It is possible to move forward when so much seems uncertain.
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