Today I'm sharing part of an email I sent to my daughters recently. I was telling them about how I'd changed the appearance of this website, and, in part, why I used something so *frilly [see picture below] which is not how I normally design or arrange things. Well, sometimes I do incorporate some girly frills, but not nearly as much as you see here now. Truthfully, it makes me happy each time I see it! And the reason for it is was told to my girls in the email which I'm now sharing with you.
...it looks a bit frilly, but many of those flowers in the background are peonies. They're the ones that God showed me one day while out in the backyard when I took the head off a rose. I was doing this because it was one of the most beautiful roses I'd seen, and because it had lived it's life fully and was at the point of wilting which I couldn't bear to see. It was large so when I pulled it off the stem so I could toss it up into the wind allowing it to return to the earth, I noticed how it looked in my hand and was amazed! All I could see was a handful of one of the most beautiful flowers I'd ever seen! It was an upside down rose in full bloom! I remembered I'd seen flowers before that looked just like this one, but I didn't know what they were called. After some research I discovered they were peonies and also grew from a bush as roses do. While I was in the backyard in a state of awe, I thanked God for allowing me to see it and immediately, He said something like this to me, "I could see the rose from the bottom as well as the top when I created it, so I made them both." The experience was so wonderful! I can't see a peony to this day without remembering it. And He showed me this because.....He's good and He loves me as He loves all His children. And He loves to show His children who He is and what He's like as we give Him the opportunity! His creative ways are matchless!
Times and seasons change, and the freedom to occasionally share on a more intimate level seems to have come with it, and I like that pretty much. Maybe it's because God wants to share with everyone on a more intimate level. He's very willing. It depends on if we're willing or not. And He probably won't reveal secrets to you in the same way He does to me, because He knows your unique personality and what you enjoy. Sharing about the rose with me is so part of how I'm put together. All I can say is how much I thoroughly enjoy knowing this: A rose is a rose is a rose unless, of coarse, it's turned up-side-down and becomes a peony!
P.S.
It probably won't do you any good to try to see a peony in just the same way as I saw it. I actually tried a couple of times and it didn't work!
*Added April 21, 2017
Since you can no longer see the peonies because I changed the blog background, I'm uploading a picture of what the previous background looked like.
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