FLOWERS- OLD BUT BRAND NEW CREATURE
"Life's long lessons"
Life is like a flower,increasing now when ever one treasures it!
Though delicate and fragile,Flowers usually succeed in finding a precious place in your heart yet unlike flower,what we generally forget is to spread love and happiness due to life's rushing hours.
Flowers believe in giving all the best things it has got, be it fragrance, petals or seeds.
Do you not agree that flowers where put in place to help us rejoice?
Observing the flowers can really help us look at life from a different perspective.
DID YOU KNOW?
*There are more than 3,410 different species of flowers?
NOW ASK YOURSELF
*What benefit do we gain from flowers?
*How can flowers help us when we are depressed?
True,the different varieties of flowers on earth are more than 3,410,
Flowers have different kinds of fragrance.
It normally produces pollen,or we can say,dust that helps its spread and compliment this pollen with sweet liquid called nectar, then when birds feed on this nectar, they help in spreading the pollen,
Bingo! That explains why we have fruits and seeds.
Some flowers send out a very brilliant colour that can be seen from a long distance.
Its always beautiful sighting flowers and their fragrance are always things to remember
The mistery behind how flowers produce pollen,nectar,colours and fragrance is indeed amazing, but yet some flowers can multiply to cover a hundred hectared land within few months,This is really amazing.
In fact,it has been God's purpose for these flowers to bring us inner peace and joy and he users the flowers to teach us a vital lesson when we are anxious and depressed.
He admonishes:
"Learn from the lilies of the field,the neither toil nor reap...even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of this."
- matt 6:28,29
What an encouragement when we are anxious, we are rest assured that God will care for us.
He created us to be able to see the beauty of the different flowering plants and to perceive their sweet fragrance.
DID YOU KNOW?
*If you where to learn or study one specie of flowers in a day,it will take you more than 9000yrs to finish learning so much as we know today about flowers?
It amaze us when we come to find out that the fruits we eat are end product of flowering plants.
Yes! Flowers can help to calm our heart and give us inner peace,
Have you ever walked pass a flower and find yourself walking backward to plug it? At that material moment,we forget about what we were thinking and wrap our minds on the beautiful creature we have between our thumb and index finger.
The bottom line:
Life is beautiful and must be lived as such.
Below are other life lessons we can learn from flowers:
- ALWAYS START YOUR DAY WITH AN INFECTIOUS ENERGY AND FRESHNESS
The way a flower embraces a new day can be a real inspiration to us. Even before the first rays of sunshine hits the tree top,the flower had already risen from its slumber and opened its petal,so start each day full of enthusiasm and freshness
BE OPEN TO BOTH OPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
A blooming flower has to face good and not so good situations everyday,bees come around to deprive it of its nectar and on the positive side,it gets to drink sunlight which makes it healthier, still facing devotees and lovers who plug it. Even ur open mindedness can live you vulnerable to people whose only aim is to use you for their selfish gain, don't let it stop you from being positive.BE A SELFLESS GIVER
Flowers gives us happiness with their positive vibes,makes us feel relieved,help us reach a meditative state of mind when we smell them,but what do they ask in return? NOTHING
There are a whole lot we can learn from flowers, as you pass by that delicate, lovely, sweet fragrance,beautiful creature,just remember: it is there for a reason and that is to make you happy.
