Sometimes we need other people’s inspiration to be creative ourselves. A good friend C .Goodnough has shared this with me and I would like to share it with you. It has an uplifting messages and I hope it will help you as it has helped me.
Inspirational Thought:
One summer my daughter and I found a nice “pick-your-own” strawberry patch and came home with half a dozen baskets of berries to put in the freezer. For some reason shasta daisies were blooming among the strawberry plants; when we loaded up our loot, my daughter picked a few of these and tossed them in with our berries.
Once home we were soon occupied with stemming and preserving strawberries and the flowers were forgotten until the evening; by then they looked pretty limp. My first thought was to toss them out, but I decided to trim the ends, put them in water, and see if they would revive. An hour or so later I checked them and was pleased to see them looking “fresh as a daisy” again.
I thought of the song that says, “I can’t take a heart that’s broken, make it over again, but I know a Man Who can.”*
Do you sometimes feel as limp, neglected, and unwanted as a trampled flower? Here’s some great news: the Lord can restore people as well as flowers! And His is not a temporary lift, only to let you droop and die again. When we put ourselves into His hands, He promises to be a well of water in our lives, springing up into everlasting life. (John 4:14)
Not only singly, but in twos and threes as well—in fact, He gives special attention to family groups. Relations between husband and wife, parents and children, former friends, in-laws, all can be revived and rebuilt by a better plan. “I know a Man Who can!”
“But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26
Christine Goodnough
(*Song written by Jack Campbell and Jimmy Davis)
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