SUCH A BEAUTIFUL BOUQUET

There is something wonderful about flowers. God’ love and heart and smile are seen in each part of creation but there seems to me to be no greater display of the enhanced and magnified picture of these than the flower. It doesn’t matter what kind or what color…God is somehow on display in each petal, stem, from the largest flower on earth – the Rafflesia Arnoldii, which weighs up to 15 pounds and grows to 3 feet wide, to the Wolffia which is the smallest flower on earth and is the size of a grain of rice.
I mention this because I have been in some deep thoughts about something I did yesterday. I visited the cemetery where my parents are buried along with my grandfather, grandmother, brother, his five year old son, my niece, my cousins, aunts and uncles, and kin folk that I never met. I looked across the cemetery and saw many graves of loved ones from many, many families. Dates were different. Names were different as well. Ages were varied from the time of ones birth to one’s death. Some were days. Some were months. Some were many years. Each represented a life that someone loved and that someone missed greatly. I thought, this grave represents someone who brought joy and laughter into someone else’s life and in some way brought color into their world. I thought how I missed these that defined the world I grew up in and that were the flowers from God placed in my world to make me recognize God’s blessings to me. To that thought I say, “Thank you, Lord, for loving me with such love that you would put these flowers in my life.”
My thoughts brought me to another place. How God must love flowers, too. You see, God loved us so much that He gave us His only Son in order to provide is a way to be with Him forever in Heaven. We are promised from God in His Word that we will all enter into life eternal and we can be with Him at home and to be with those that we love that put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I know where my grandparents, parents, brothers, nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles are who have already have been called home…they are adorning God’s throne. You see, God loves flowers too. Some of Gods greatest gifts are found written in His Word…grace, love, joy, mercy, redemption, salvation, hope, etc., and there is nothing that can diminish these at all. But it is just like God to make home just a little sweeter by having flowers waiting on us. Not just one or two but heavenly bouquets. Everywhere is seen bouquets full of splendor and beauty…and the greatest beauty of all will be the one that loves me the most – Jesus Himself.
So from now on when I see a cemetery, I will be reminded of home where there is only beauty and that every new grave will be a reminder for me that God is still preparing a place for me. God has told us that that home that He is preparing is a place in which there will be no more tears, no more death, no more sorrow, no more sickness, only joy, for God Himself will wipe away all of our tears and we will know no more grief or sorrow. What a beautiful home.

Until then….

Written in memory of my aunt – Mrs. Joan York buried September 27, 2018.