Summertime for us means cabin time! High in the mountains of Colorado, lies a beautiful valley known to many as Conejos. As the warmer days approached, my husband and I drove there to just enjoy the terrain and get away for a few days. As we traveled up the old dirt road leading to our cabin on FR250, we suddenly came upon a meadow covered with an amazing array of yellow flowers! I got out of the car to take a picture, and low and behold, those yellow flowers were dandelions! Yes, hundred of dandelions creating such a magnificent picture!
Have you ever thought of a dandelion as beautiful? Neither have I, especially when those pesky little things show up in your grass just daring you to pluck them out. But there, in that valley in Conejos, Colorado at about 9,000 feet, were dandelions showing off their colors and shouting: take the picture!
What a lesson I learned walking through that meadow! A dandelion, when viewed with other dandelions is a picture of beauty not just a pesky weed. Right then, the lord spoke to my heart and shared their meaning. When like the dandelion, we are in the wrong place and not where our Lord has planted us or we are not doing his will, our lives show nothing more than hardship, pain and unrest. But when our lives are placed in the Lord’s hands and we are working for the Kingdom alongside other believers, we radiate an amazing and glorious life!
so today, I check with the Holy Spirit and ask for direction – where I am to go, what He wants me to do and who I am to speak to. And it all begins in my Be Still and Know Time!
Let your beauty shine for Him today just as dandelions do in that meadow. I can see it already!