~A PETALED SURPRISE

"Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land."

~Song of Solomon 2:12 (NIV)~

I'm so glad I accidentally took a wrong turn while out running errands; I ended up driving by my dad's home and saw that his bountiful blue hydrangea bushes had come into bloom....

"Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways, God infuses this element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our days, and fill our eyes with light. He drops this added sweetness into his children's cup, and makes it to run over. The success we are not counting on, the blessing we were not trying after, the strain of music in the midst of drudgery, the beautiful morning picture or sunset glory thrown in as we pass to or from our daily business, the unsought word of encouragement or expression of sympathy, the sentence that meant for us more than a writer or speaker thought--these and a hundred others that everyone's experience can supply are instances of what I mean."

~Samuel Longfellow~
(American clergyman and hymn writer, 1819-1892)

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