Peony Bush in Rain Garden

In last week’s posting Thanks Be, I talked about the Peony bush in the front rain garden. However, the picture on the posting was of peony bush with three flowers that I had taken off the internet.

Here is a picture of the actual peony bush in the front rain garden of our house. It too has three flowers but these three flowers look overburdened by their own weight and are drooping. The flowers are as beautiful as the picture last week, but are bent over by their own beauty.

This observation reminded me today of how even when life is going well and everything is great, it sometimes seems like we are overburdened, albeit with good stuff.

You will notice in this picture that the bigger the flowers on the peony bush the more they droop. Sometimes in life we have so much stuff that it becomes a burden.

Peony flowers are beautiful when they are full, but just last a short time. Soon the flowers will die and will only return next spring. But while they are here in their full beauty they are overburdened.

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