No Decision Fridays

Each day we make choices that affect the direction of our lives.  Well, I try to avoid all decisions on Fridays, as I need a day off from those that I continually make at home, at work, and socially all week long.   Anyway, every day when I leave my building for my walk, I have to decide if I’m going right or left.  When I go right I pass by the little flower pictured here.  

This little thing has struggled up through the crack between the sidewalk and the building, and she has bloomed for a couple of weeks now.  Today, I saw a few of her petals are missing, yet she survives and has hope for another day!

At the commencement address at Christian Theological Seminary today, a favorite author of mine, Barbara Brown Taylor, mentioned the grass pushing its way up through the cracks of the sidewalk.  That’s when I knew I had to share this flower picture and all of the hope I see in it.  At times we all have to struggle and push our way through things that are as hard as concrete and difficult to break through.  Yet, if we persevere, we do it.  So like this little flower, I encourage you to persevere and hope!

Romans 5: 3 - 5:  "Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.“