I LOVE LILIES! All sort of lilies...rain lilies, Easter lilies, Amaryllis, Asiatic...all lilies! Each year after Easter, there are abandoned lilies left after the church service. I take the unwanted plants home and install them in a mass bed behind a trellis in the camellia garden. They have flourished and become a large, expanding planting until one day, a helper who didnt know his lilies from his weeds, yanked them out by the roots and discarded them. I was dumb struck, speechless. It had taken 5 years to grow that bed and they represented precious memories of Easters past. There was no use crying over lost bulbs, the deed was done. To my surprise this spring, nearly three years later, there are signs of their return, the hidden bulblet fragments reappeared and elegant stalks shot up toward the sun and flowered. Remnants of life that slept beneath the sod had sprung to life! Though the parent bulbs had been uprooted and were lost, their descendants emerged from earthen clods to reproduce and spread. That imagery reminds me of the dead in Christ who will be raised to new life and give testimony of the resurrection power of Almighty God. Our trio used to sing a Dallas Holm song...And Ill rise again...aint no power on earth that can keep Me back, Yes, Ill come again, Come to take My people back. We may lie beneath the sod for a while, but our souls are not sleeping...they are only patiently waiting. And there is no power on earth that can take that promise away or shatter that truth. MORE ABOUT LILIES! While cruising the Sams Club aisles one spring, I spied a bag of oriental lilies that held a particular charm for me. I purchased them, brought into the garden and planted them in a tight spot between the white fencing and the box wood hedge, thinking that, due to their height, they would be seen best there in the background of the wedding garden. Each year the exotic bulbs send up high stalks and eventually they become a glorious, display of yellow, white and coral Asiatic lily blossoms. Their fragrance is intoxicating! There is just one problem...theres no room to spread and grow and that is their requirement. In the cool of early fall I will have to dig all and relocate them to a more appropriate place. Have you ever been planted where you couldnt flourish and grow? Have you waited and waited to be transplanted to another place where you felt you really belonged? Waiting can be hard. The wait after a medical test is often more difficult than the test. Yet, I have learned powerful lessons in waiting for Gods perfect timing, for His perfect Will to take place, and for positive change to occur. In those times I have felt intimacy in deepest communion with Christ like no other time, and when answers or change has finally come, the result has been sweeter than the fragrance of any lily known to man! Be patient, and be thankful while you wait...there will blossoms of thanksgiving and gentle winds of change, and when you least expect it.. Luke 12:27 Consider the lilies how they grow; they toil not, they spin not. The moral is a simple one...be patient, trust, and just grow in Christ while you are waiting. There will be a mighty harvest!
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 19:38:50 +0000
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