I'm sure you know by now how much I love to be surprised by beauty in unexpected places!
Let's look a bit closer...
Breathtaking beauty surrounded by thorns and prickles!
That is life, too...
(Pictures by Trent)
Let's look a bit closer...
Breathtaking beauty surrounded by thorns and prickles!That is life, too...
(Pictures by Trent)
5 comments:
"Breathtaking beauty surrounded by thorns and prickles . . . that is life!"
You are such a writer at heart, Jeanette! I may have to borrow that sometime. ;-)
My parents have those cactuses growing all over the place on their land. They are pretty when they are blooming. But boy, those thorns do hurt!
I've often thought that's how Satan entices people into sin. He wows them with dazzling beauty and excitement, then when they reach for it, they get stung!
By the way, it has now rained for two days here, after a summer-long drought. Thanks for sending it our way! ;-)
(Don't worry. I know Who to REALLY thank.)
Methinks there's a great dustcover for a devotional book :)
Thanks, Renae! Yes, that certainly is another lesson to be taken from that thistle flower, totally different from the one I was thinking of, but just as important if not more so. I didn't try touching the thorns, but they sure LOOK like they would hurt!
It is always amazing to me how a little thing like a thistle flower can transform the area where it is growing. I think when we are in a very dry spell in our lives, we might think there is no point to being loving and gracious and...well, beautiful like that flower. But if we only realized how we can transform that dry place for those others who find themselves there also, what a difference we can make.
I'm glad you got some rain finally, and I hope it cooled things down, too, like it did here.
Well, Carol-Ann, methinks I only know how to do a pamphlet, and a dustcover might look funny on a pamphlet! But seriously, what art thou saying to me?? Dost thou put forth a hint? (Ha ha!)
Just FYI, when I submitted the proposal for my first book, it was for an 86 page book. It was accepted - yippee! But when I got the contract, it was for a 240 page book!
I nearly had a panic attack, right then and there. Who did they think I was? C.S. Lewis?
But with God's help, I turned that "pamphlet" into a book. And so can you.
I can just imagine your panic, Renae! Yikes! I know how I would feel! That was a huge increase in pages!
Thanks for the confidence in me, too. I haven't forgotten about this project, and maybe someday it will happen.
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