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God's Blessings: FLOWERSTo see the world in a grain
of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower;
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
-
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
We can almost smell the aroma of God's beauty in the fresh spring flowers. His
breath surrounds us in the warm summer breezes. - Gale Heide
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils,
light in your eyes, flowers at your feat, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Little
flower, but if I could understand, what you are, root and all in all, I should know what God and man is. - Tennyson
Christianity
sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the
purpose of all Creation. In this flowers may be enjoyed simply and directly in themselves as showing forth God's goodness
and beauty, or, more fully, as archetypes, signatures, symbols, and bearers of legends, mirroring the revealed articles of
Christian faith - thereby serving as means for their teaching, recollection, contemplation and celebration. - John S. Stokes,
Jr., Flower Theology II
Why are wildflowers so important to those of us who care at all for flowers? For me, anyway,
it is because they come like gifts from God (or Nature), and to encounter them in their natural habitat is an extraordinary
aesthetic pleasure. - Katharine S. White
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