Recently I had an old high school friend contact me on Facebook. It was one of the nicest e-mails I had gotten in a while. She told me that she found it funny that my posts were ones that she looked forward to and that my life seemed to just come together so magically almost as if all of a sudden, it gave her hope.
I happen to know that it WAS indeed magical.. the kind of "magic" that only GOD can supply. I know that my story, my life was completely orchestrated by God. What I also know is that at some point, about 5 years ago, I made a conscious decision to LIVE my life. I chose to be deliberate about what I was doing, with who, why and when. I listened to the Lord and was grateful for a house full of young women that all got a long. I was thankful for friends that embraced me in their growing families as the "auntie". I was happy to have a job that was fun (most of the time) but that did a good job of supporting me. I had found that long lost, often sought after thing we call contentment.
Yesterday while driving through the tulip fields, I found what I think may have been my favorite field. It was actually a field of daffodils that had already seen their prime, they had bloomed and were wilting some still yellow but not bright and vibrant. In the midst of them were these pinkish red tulips that were standing ever so tall, blooming as they should. It reminded me how very important it is for us to do what God created us to do; to grow closer to Him, living out the will he has for us... to BLOOM. We are to BLOOM, right where we are, even if we're surrounded by people that are negative, or people that don't want to grow OR have grown to their potential and stopped. We need to reach to the Lord and grow, and bloom and rejoice for that is where God has us, right now.
