Tag: healing

Sunday Morning Drive

“The Earth Laughs in Flowers-” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Okay.

There are days that have burdened me with unbearable sadness.

Days in recent months that convinced me that I could never possibly find joy again.

Joy can come in unexpected moments.

This morning rather than sitting in a brick and mortar church I went for a Sunday drive and headed out of the city down a secondary backroad that ran parallel to an old railroad track. Old farmhouses and an industrial park and untended farm fields lined either side of the road as I drove along in the early morning hours.

Ah! In the distance, to my right I saw a field glistening with lemony yellow sunflowers lifting their deep green stalks towards the turquoise summer sky.

In stunned silence, I thought it was an illusion.

But, alas, God has crowned his earth with beauty so perfect and so complete that it leaves us speechless.

So, I walked among the lemony yellow sunflowers and the fields of pink zinnias, yellow and orange marigolds, and white and pink snapdragons.

Standing among the glorious flowers I envisioned that heaven must look exactly like this glorious garden. I found out that a family of farmers cultivate the flowers along with watermelons, cantaloupes and a variety of vegetables.

They allow visitors to cut a bouquet of flowers (for a minimum price, of course).

I collected a variety of flowers and now that bouquet is beautifully adorning my dining room table. Every time I look at it I will be reminded of just how beautiful this world is; I will be reminded that joy can come in unexpected moments.

I will be reminded of how my heart healed and laughed at that tiny joyous sparkle of roadside beauty.

Indeed Emerson was correct when he noted that the earth laughs in flowers.

The earth in its beauty brings laughter to our hearts and heals our suffering souls.

So, go for a drive and seek out the little roadside surprises that await.

Be watchful of unexpected blessings.

I feel blessed by this day. I feel blessed by this day that God has made.

I feel joy in my heart and I can face whatever is coming in my life because I know there will always be flowers blooming in the rich dark soil.

And I can always take a Sunday drive.

Jenny W. Andrews copyright 2024

May God Have Mercy on the USA

This is the flag of my country, the United States of America.

I love it because of the freedoms that have been guaranteed to me as expressed in the United States Constitution.

Most importantly, this country is my home. It is in my blood. For hundreds of years and through different wars, my people have fought and spilled blood for the freedoms that I enjoy in this land.

I am an American. I have no other country that I can call home nor did my parents, grandparents, great grandparents, great-great grandparents, great-great-great grandparents, have any other land they could call home. This land is all that I have. It is woven into the very tapestry of my blood, soul and self-identity. I am an American.

I am very saddened by the state of my beloved land at this moment.

I am urgently requesting that we all turn our eyes toward God and beg Him to heal our wounds, to give us the wisdom to remember that we are a human family that should work together rather than fight and destroy each other.

At the end of this life, we all must stand before God’s throne and give an accounting of our actions. All kingdoms pass away; all people leave this earthly life.

Nothing is forever.

Nothing except God and His kingdom and His judgement.

Peace only comes when a people walk right with God and obey His laws.

There can never be peace without God.

God is love.

Love is kind; love is patient; love reaches across the aisle and sees the humanity in all God’s children.

Please pray for peace and healing for my beloved country, the United States of America, my home.

My home, sweet home.

Jenny W. Andrews copyright 2021