Flowers in the Afternoon Sun

“Therefore 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 important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.” –Jesus

And they don’t worry about diet supplements or wrinkle, either. :-p

My flowers are blooming despite my horrible neglect of the gardens this year. I’ve been either renovating or traveling for business or writing freelance, like crazy this year. I have never been so busy as I have been this year, never. It’s good to be productive, but it is a two-edged sword. I miss my meditative, reflective times that I have in great abundance, and of course, life is rather crazy with the house gutted. But I am grateful to be doing it all. It needs it, and thank God I am able to do it.

My gardens are my retreat. I hope to give them a little attention this month, by relieving them of weeds and stopping to smell the roses.