Be Patient and Be the “Bud”
It’s only been six days since I wrote about waiting. I hope you don’t mind my revisiting the topic so soon, but an experience this past Friday reminded me of the topic once more.
While Ray and I were taking walks last week, I noticed the green daffodil leaves I have seen before on the bank at the front of our yard. We moved into our house in January of 2004. The first time I saw daffodil leaves on that bank was that spring. I was disappointed that they didn’t bloom.
We have other daffodils in our yard, but year after year, the bank has been bare of blooms. When I saw them last week, I again wondered why. I pointed them out to Ray and expressed my puzzlement to him. I wondered what I might do to help them. Then, all of a sudden, I saw something new—this bud.
As Ray and I walked along the front of our yard, we passed dozens and dozens of green daffodil leaves and saw only this one bright bud among them. As we experience our 18th spring in our house, I am thankful for two lessons.
- Just because we don’t see a sign of hope in one particular area for 18 years, doesn’t mean we won’t ever see one.
- During the times when I am in a crowd of “plain daffodil leaves,” I want to be the bud that brightens the landscape.
Patience and brightening the landscape—those two skills are ones that you can teach your children. Those skills will bless them all their days.
I waited patiently for the Lord;
And He reached down to me and heard my cry.
Psalm 40:1
Do all things without complaining or arguments;
so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent,
children of God above reproach
in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation,
among whom you appear as lights in the world,
holding firmly the word of life . . . .
Philippians 2:14-16a
Amen! Thank you for sharing.????