I love wildflowers. I stop to take pictures of wildflowers growing by the roadside and in fields. I even have a few wildflowers that grow in my own backyard. I love it! My husband doesn't really, but he will mow around a few of them because he loves me. :)A year or two ago, not sure how long now, there was a wild poppy that appeared in our backyard. I was thrilled! I love wild poppies and I've never had one grow in my yard! It was growing in a place that had to be mowed though, so I decided I would transplant it into a flower pot and I would keep it. :) Well, it shriveled up and died in the pot. I was disappointed. A friend who worked at a local nursery told me you can't grow wild flowers in pots. The main problem being, we usually water them too much. They aren't used to being watered and weeded etc. I thought, wow, that's true. I see wildflowers growing on the side of the road and in fields, and no one is watering or weeding them or deadheading them....lol. I know God waters them with the rain, but they don't get watered and tended regularly like a flower bed does.
I forgot about the poppy I tried to grow in a flower pot.
Until, earlier this week when I noticed some color in a flower pot with nothing but weeds growing in it.
I have lots of big flower pots around here, and apparently this one had been neglected for awhile. I had noticed the weeds growing in it, in fact, my husband said he started to pull the weeds out of it just a day or two before. The color I saw in the weeds was a wild poppy blooming! I remembered planting the wild poppy in that pot, but I really couldn't remember if it was last year or the year before. The poppy is so beautiful, and it's growing like a weed....lol...which is great since I love this weed!
I can't count the times the Lord has blessed me through a flower popping up somewhere I didn't expect it. One time, when I was going through a very uncertain time in my life, one single pink lady bloomed in our front flower bed, and we had never planted pink ladies anywhere in our yard. We hadn't even planted anything that year because of health problems. When I walked out my front door that day, I needed some hope, and that flower was hope sent from the Lord above just when I needed it.God wants a personal relationship with us. I believe He speaks to us everyday in many ways. All we have to do is look around. Go outside, take walk, look around. Ask God to speak to you. He will.
