Consider the lilies …
Consider the lilies …
Actually these are zanias and I still consider them to this day and will the rest of my life.
About 5 years ago we had a garden of these, probably 100 or more, planted out by our shed. Their season had ended and I pulled them as they died off and was down to just a few.
A day or so later I got really angry with God over city/shed issues that were not going our way. My shed door was open and I just remember looking at the door, grabbing it and as I threw it shut my eye caught the few zanias left and I cried out “God if you are real, make a yellow one come up ”
The significance of the color yellow was that in my brain I knew I had only seen a few out of the hundred and they had long been pulled. A yellow one coming back was impossible.
So not to test God I said I was sorry and would not hold Him to this request.
And by now you probably know, the significance of the color yellow was that about two months afterward I happened to be out by our shed and had long forgotten about the incident when like in the twinkling of an eye, I looked down and to my amazement there it was, a single yellow zania.
I could not believe my eyes and my heart just melted.
I love telling that story because it is so amazing how God showed up. Later I realized that if God had raised one up upon my request I might have been able to explain it. But two months later, not only had the zania season ended but I had pulled every one up. It was barren.
When I thought of the blog, GodScript, I thought of this story and was wondering where I was going to get the photo. So again I was amazed to come across this picture taken on 4/16/03 when I had that garden of zanias. The yellow one captured because there were so few and it made for good contrast.
So the story continues 5 years later with another twist as this is the only picture I have of that patch.
It’s the little things, the small whisper that sometimes reveals our amazing God.
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