Today, I Planted Flowers
Today, I planted flowers.
I gathered potting soil, cleaned out used flowerpots from last year, and put on my gloves. I carefully potted petunias, pansies, and geraniums. Watching the tender roots, and ensuring they became safe and snug inside the new pot.
Another small victory for me.
I’m proud of the girl who got up on a Saturday morning and went outside to get things done. I could have easily stayed in bed. Who doesn’t love sleeping in on the weekend after a long week?
When you’re fighting big battles and desperately trying to keep yourself from falling apart, it's easy to retreat and encounter a lack of wanting to do anything. It's easy to say you’ll get to it later and then you never do. Life waits for no one - you blink, and time moves on.
There are times when pushing yourself to do the things, is the right decision. It may seem like such a small task to plant some flowers, but to someone fighting unseen battles every day, it's a huge win. A reason to celebrate when you choose to show up, even if it was hard to do so.
The work doesn’t stop because the flowers are planted. You know they need water and pruning to survive. Old leaves must be removed in order for new ones to bud out. The soil needs just the right amount of water. Too much and they become soggy. Too little and they will dry out. If I want to enjoy pretty blooms into the fall, I have to care for the plants daily. I have to keep showing up for them. If I slack when they need care, I’ll have to deal with the consequences. For if I slack too much, the flowers might not make it.
I love having fresh flowers around the house. I enjoy coming home from work and caring for them. Checking the new blooms that have arrived since the previous day. There is a sense of purpose and responsibility. And a reminder of my sweet grandmother. She loved having an abundance of flowers around her patio. I remember as a child the delicate care she would provide to them. And now, I get to do the same.
So, for today, I’m celebrating the victory of planting flowers. The little win that includes doing something even when I felt like I didn’t want to. I’m celebrating the smell of fresh flowers that warms my soul. I’m celebrating the bright blooms that bring a sense of cheerfulness deep within.
Planting flowers was worth it.
I’m proud of the girl who chose to plant flowers today.
Colossians 1:9-14, CSB
For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light. He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves. In him we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
