Roses

Nature has a beautiful way of showing us how things really are.

For instance, let’s look at a rose.

Behind the beauty and aroma of every rose is a grueling and systematic process. Before the rose can be in a vase, there is a lot of work to be done.

First, the dirt had to be tilled, then a bush had to be planted, then the bush had to be watered, then the bush had to be sun-baked, then the stems had to be pruned, next the rose buds, and finally the rose blooms.

See the rules? See the process? This is botany meets sheet music. Remove any of these steps and you’re roseless.

Things of beauty are rarely happenstance and are quite difficult for a fast-food society to grasp.

So you want the world to stop and smell your roses?

Go till the soil today. Then plant something today. Then water that something today. Then…

Roses are results of work that happened yesterday and they beg us to do work today that matters.

Our families, churches, and businesses will never bloom until we get some dirt under our fingernails.

2 Lesson Points:

1) Yesterday was your best day to plant, but it is over. Today is now your best bet. Tomorrow is unacceptable.

2) You are going to want some roses in the spring, and yelling at the dirt won’t make that happen when April comes around.