Little Flowers

It amazes me to no end the things that God is doing in our house. He has sent us so many blessings. We as the "Daisy House Girls" - is that really me, do I really get to live in this cool house? - don't feel like we do anything at all. We call people, we email - usually I feel like a lazy bum and people hang with us anyway!

I think that God is doing some awesome stuff here in Wichita and that we have no clue what it is. I just feel blessed to be a part of it.

I want to share with you guys something that I wrote back in January of 2000 - 5 years ago. It was an image I got while praying - taken from another poem - that just stuck to me and I had to get this out. I thought of it tonight and want to share it with you:

Sometimes I picture my secret place - where I store all my dreams, love, heartache and pain - as a garden may be. There are daisies along the pathway, gathering up all the "happy thoughts," all the beautiful sunsets. Then there are the seasonal flowers, the hopes and friends that come and go as the seasons.

In the middle of the garden is a circular planter. On the perimeter of the planter are roses, as beautiful as you have every seen. These rosebuds hold the hope of a beautiful future, filled with love and children and happiness. These roses, however, hold thorns that have the power to prick you and cause pain. They cannot be perfect of course, for they are of the earth.

However beautiful these roses may be, the one that holds the centerplace captures you, taking you away from all else. One lone sterling rose plant grows. This uniquelly beautiful plant has buds the color of lavender but not quite. The special thing about this rose is that it is without thorns, just as Jesus is without sin. The rose is perfect and watches over all else, protecting the garden from insects and mildew. The sterling rose makes sure that all is right in the garden.

These were my thoughts five years ago. Now, God has led me to this Daisy House of a place and given me the happy thoughts and beautiful sunsets - and he has so much more! He is looking out for me from the center of my being - loving me with a power that I cannot understand. Thank you, my daisies! Thank you for allowing God to work in your life, and therefore in mine. You are amazing blessings and I love each of you!!