Caring for the Fallen
I was given a hanging basket of mixed million bells and petunias. I took the hanger part of it off and sat it
inside a stand. The stand was blown over
during a storm and the basket of flowers fell to the ground. The flower was damaged in the fall, many
flower limbs broke off and it was not
the perfect beauty it once was. I picked up all the pieces and I put the
stand back into place. I returned the
basket of flowers to the stand, arranged the flowers a bit and watered it. A few days later somehow the stand and the
flower basket fell again. It caused even
more damage to the flower. I was disappointed
that the flower had been damaged so much. I put the stand back into place,
did some things to secure the stand and put the basket of flowers inside of
it. I watered the flowers and straightened
out the flower branches as best I could.
The stand somehow fell at least two or three other times during the
week, but I finally found a way to secure it so it
wouldn't fall again. I thought my flower
basket of flowers would never recover from the many damaging things that had
happened to it. The remarkable thing
about this basket of flowers is that after a while , it did recover and is as
beautiful as it was the day that I received it.
I think it is even more beautiful than it was when it was new. I was very careful to take care of my basket of
flowers even though it had lost its original beauty. I did not give up on it when it had gone through
shock and change. I enjoy it more, I think because, I watched it survive and become even more
beautiful than some of my other flower baskets that had never fallen.
I'm so
glad that God doesn't give up on us and also for the people who don't give up
on us in life.
The people who love us no matter what. We all mess up sometimes and fall short in
some way.
Sometimes things are hard in life but God will use those thing to make us more usable
and more like Him.
Susan Y Nikitenko
August 6th, 2017
Proverbs 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Proverbs 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
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