Consider the Wildflowers

Friday, June 10, 2022

Consider the Wildflowers

 

 

We took a little road trip a few weeks ago. I noticed along the road there was massive clusters of pretty little flowers growing on each side of the road. Some were purple and some that were yellow.  I believe the flowers are called “flocks”… at least the purple ones are. They were such a pretty display framing the countryside road for miles and miles.

God’s design always amazes me.  When I paint or draw, I see so much detail. Can you imagine the Creator’s eye for detail?  It is far more than our human mind can comprehend. It is also far more than our natural eye can see. We see the surface, but an intricate system develops from the seed that finally becomes a blossoming flower. The roots then become a vast system, even entangling together from one flower with another.  We don’t see the roots working, yet we know, that the roots maintain nutrients for each flower.

When God Paints the World

In art class, we learned about the color wheel. Each color has a complimentary color. There are primary colors which are red, blue, and yellow. The complementary color is the color directly adjacent when you look at the color wheel. 

God's Color Wheel

 


The flowers I saw on the roadside were purple and yellow.  If you look at the primary color yellow on a color wheel, the complementary color is purple.

Even in nature, God has designed everything to be completely complimentary.  No one planted those flowers there. They grew organically, even in their color scheme, complementing one another in their natural habitat.

… and so, we consider the wildflowers. Just like us, God places us in a position where we can draw from the resources around us, to grow and blossom. It’s just as the saying says, “we bloom where we are planted”. We complement our surroundings just like the yellow and purple colored flowers complement each other in their natural surroundings. So beautifully the flowers naturally decorate the roadside, even though they are not the same color. The flower’s roots co-exist, side by side, drawing nutrients from the same soil as they are enriched by the rainfall.

Let the wildflowers be an example. We co-exist, although we don’t look the same. Our skin color, our culture, our ideas, and our goals all vary. The variation can be a drastic or subtle difference on the outside and each soul still draws from the same surroundings.  However, the location of our surroundings can affect our ability to survive. Flowers who thrive best in the sun, will not survive very long in the shade. Flowers who survive in the tropical atmosphere will not survive in the harsh winter snow.

The lesson of the wildflowers is simple. Yet, it is one of the most beautiful and wisest lessons that Heavenly Father wants us to understand. We thrive best when we bloom wherever the Creator, our Heavenly Father has planted us.  Liken the soil, rain, and sunshine to the grace of God in our lives. We grow as we draw from our surroundings and the grace of God in our lives.  In all our glory, we exist together because the different colors, shapes, and sizes of our physical nature, complement each other. Just like the wildflowers, we are designed to be rooted deeply side by side. We are designed to be entangled, with a supportive root system that causes us to thrive together, yet we are different, still blooming where we are planted.

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