Flower From Our Father

 

    Have you ever wondered what the flowers might have been like in the Garden of Eden?  I'm sure they were the most beautiful flowers ever to appear on this earth.  Our loving Father would have filled the Garden with beauty and color and variety to thrill his beloved children, Adam and Eve.

    I hope they appreciated the perfect flowers He would have provided -- with delicate petals and rich color, and the sweetest fragrance imaginable.

    Alas, perfection is no longer within our grasp on this ole earth, but nonetheless, flowers still abound and their beauty is still amazing and glorious, thank you very much, our Father!!

    The beautiful color of the hydrangea above is delightful.  It sat in a pot in the shade on the boardwalk in Duck, North Carolina, along with some other beauties that brought a smile to my face.

    "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights," James 1:17.

    These delicate blossoms grow on a vine that adorns a white picket fence in Colonial Williamsburg.  I don't know what they are (maybe you do?), but they so pretty!

    I know what these lovely blossoms are since Virginia is abloom with azaleas in the Spring.  My mother loved azaleas and had many bushes full of white and fuschia blossoms crowded together on each limb.  They only last a few weeks, but they are magnificent during that time.  I can well-imagine that azaleas will bloom year-round up in Heaven.

    Another hydrangea - this one in a pretty shade of pink.  The bush is in a pot on my patio and it has stayed bright and beautiful for several weeks!  Hydrangeas are one of my very favorite flowers - and in all colors, although I think lavender might be my favorite.

    

     This is a flower in my backyard that came up on a vine that appeared out of nowhere.  I imagine a bird or some other animal planted or dropped seeds for the plant and God gave me the free gift of an exotic passion flower.  This flower is not a "lily," but the following Bible verse pertains to all the flowers of the field.

     "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these," Matthew 6:28-29.

    I'll end our visit to flower fields with this picture of tulips and a few other blooms that graced the garden of the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg this spring.  The sunshine was full-out that day and you can almost feel it's warmth in the bright green leaves surrounding the flowers.

   "O LORD, how manifold are Your works!  In wisdom You have made them all.  The earth is full of Your possessions," Psalm 104:24.