Rain Garden Today
When I was on the Federal building plaza in Chicago yesterday, promoting the works of mercy over the works of war, a man walked by with a bouquet of fresh flowers. When I reached out to hand him a flyer about our nonviolent action his hands were full with the bouquet of flowers. I jokily said to him “Where are all the flowers going?” A while later he came back across the Federal plaza with a similar bouquet of flowers in his hands; but in this one the flowers were wilting. He explained that he took the bouquet of fresh flowers and replaced this one with it. This time I asked him: “Where have all the flowers gone?”
Today looking at the rain garden in our front yard I noticed the daffodils were on their way out, the tulips were coming into full bloom and the rest of the perennials in the rain garden were just green growing and “long time coming”. What is nice about the rain garden mix is that that in the spring, summer and fall there are always flowers coming in and going out of bloom.
Life is sometimes like the flower bouquets coming and going across the plaza, or the flowers in the rain garden. Some flowers of life are a long time coming, but there are always flowers going and coming. We just need to stop, see and smell the flowers.
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