This is one of my favorite pictures from my personal collection
because I find such joy in the beauty of this without the frustration that I
associate with dandelions in my yard. When they are growing in my yard, they
only serve to remind me how much it's going to cost in weed killer and time to
remove them or the frustration that my neighbor upwind of us won't kill their
weeds.
Children have the ability to see these differently though. They
have no comprehension of what a weed is. To them, they are a beautiful and
lovely little tiny kid-sized yellow flower they pick and give to mom and dad or
their friends. Then complete delight sets in when it turns to that magical puff
to wish upon with eyes closed and head tilted upward as you inhale with
everything in you before you release that slow deliberate exhale to send it
scattering up into the wind. Oh, what a joy that was...when I was little.
Life is kind of like this at times. We may be surrounded by bad
things or negative people, struggles and burdens. I dare say there is a beauty
within each if we promise to look for it along the way and not focus only on
the negative aspects. Perhaps a broken arm becomes an early discovery of
something worse. It was terrible to break the arm but had that not happened the
other illness would have become fatal due to lack of treatment. Instead, that
broken arm saved a life. The good showed up through the bad and we should try
to find that value. It may be more difficult when it involves toxic people, but
I still think we can find at least one good thing in each person.
If we try really hard, maybe we can even find the joy from
struggles and pretend it is the beauty of the dandelion puff...breathe in,
breathe out slowly and giggle!
1 comment:
So true!! We've had many blessing in disguise.
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