Beautiful Wild Roses! These caught my eye as I was driving. Okay, I know I am supposed to keep my eyes on the road, but I do tend to scan the ditches - watching for deer of course - and this beauty caught my eye. There they were - growing wild in the weeds a short distance off the road - poking out from a wooded area. I just had to stop and take a picture. Their beauty and situation makes me think. I had just come from cutting, trimming, planting, and watering the lawn and plants around my house. I was struggling to make everything look so wonderful and pretty. Yet here was this beauty, springing from the wild where no one had domesticated, tended, or tried to shape it. I wonder - do we sometimes try so hard to "grow the gardens" of our personal lives by managing every little detail of them that we fail to see the wild beauty around us. Perhaps, sometimes, we need to just let go, let our gaze veer off the road we are traveling, and see the beauty of God's creation. And then - ah, well, who knows what will happen . . .
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Rachel
6/23/2014 01:03:18 am
I really like this.
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AuthorJoel Kreger is a writer who grew up in Minnesota, spent many years of his life in Iowa and Wisconsin, and now lives in Minnesota. His life experience includes careers of serving 17 years as a Lutheran parish pastor, working 18 years as a public school teacher, and now writing as a novelist and blogger. Archives
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