My garden is bursting with abundance in these warm days. Most dramatic are the delicate and gentle yellow poppies, emerging in plenty from places all over the garden. I cannot remember ever seeding these delightful gems, but each year their presence is increasingly dramatic. They thrive even from the most barren cracks in the cement and along scarce bits of soil beside hedges, bringing colour and light. They are ever changing as the days go by. Tender drops of water grace their petals like diamonds in the early mornings and by evening the sun shines delicately through the incandescent yellow.
Sometimes the good things in our life like love and joy and peace multiplying are not as dramatic or obvious as my ever-spreading yellow poppies in springtime. They are real nevertheless and they grow and spread all year long. Watch for their growth among the weeds and cracked cement of our lives and delight in them. Make sure they do not get pulled out with the weeds. Recognize their distinctive shape and let them multiply. Like the poppies they come announced and spread freely. May they bring encouragement and hope in our lives today.
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