As I typically do every weekend I mowed my yard on Saturday. While mowing I noticed a flower growing out of a retaining wall in my backyard. Yep, right in the middle of the block wall was a blooming flower.
It wasn’t there the week before. If I would’ve seen it before it bloomed I would have pulled it because it would’ve looked like a weed and I hate weeds.
Seeing the flower growing in a wall amazed me. How did it do grow there? I remember thinking to myself “weeds can grow anywhere but not flowers.” At the Chapin house flowers can be hard to grow. You can plant a flower in great soil, water them and make sure they get plenty of sun light and still they don’t grow unless the condition remain perfect. Miss a week of watering or forget to keep track of the puppy and the flower dies.
Seeing the flower made me think of the entire situation as a metaphor on life.
It is easy to get negative things to thrive. Bad situations seems to feed themselves. All a weed (or bad situation) needs to take root and take off is a small crack.
But getting the positive to thrive takes hard work. Care, nurture and attention are normally required to make the positive take root. So much so that when a flower (or positive situation) takes off without those things is a shocking to see.
