Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Oddballs & Late Bloomers

 

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Who can be compared with the Lord our God, who is enthroned on high?  He stoops to look down on heaven and on earth.  He lifts the poor from the dust and the needy from the garbage dump.  He sets them among princes, even the princes of his own people!  He gives the childless woman a family, making her a happy mother.  Praise the Lord!  Psalm 113:5-9

This plant in front of our home has the loveliest cone-shaped pink blooms.  In Fall the blossoms wilt and turn brown.  By winter, the plant disappears and, in spring, re-emerges from the ground up.  This year it decided to hang around with an attention-getter.  In early October, a single late pink bloom appeared in a sea of wilted brown.  It’s still there now, after two nights of freezing temperatures.  Our late-bloomer is an oddball.

In my thinking God does a lot of that.  He takes the ordinary and makes something quite marvelous.  Poor, needy, barren, or right out of the garbage dump…the least of these, our brethren[1], are made fit company for princes.  Late blooming oddballs are they; they are quite unexpected and a marvel. 

In our yard there are plants I would have given odds would not last a season…and now they’re huge, healthy, and beautiful.  Others were very promising, but rotted in place, and are now firewood.  The fact remains it’s useless to judge what God is doing.  Sometimes the write-offs of life make the kind of comeback that defy explanation under the sun, because, like a tapestry viewed from the underside, what’s going-on makes little sense.  The view from Heaven’s throne room is quite different; God, the Master craftsman of everything is using a late blooming oddball to get the attention of those who thought the game was over.

For You Today

Perhaps you’re thinking your game is over, that life has passed-by and skipped-over your plans and hopes.  Maybe you feel a little wilted and brown.  But could it be there’s a little late-blooming surprise among the wilting masses?  The oddball may still sit with the princes after all.  God still does that.

You chew on that as you hit the Rocky Road; have a blessed day!  

[1] Title and Other Images:  Wikimedia Commons (public domain)  Unless noted, Scripture quoted from The New Living Translation©   


 

1 comment:

  1. So helpful today, I do feel like a late bloomer in His kingdom. You'll never know how much ripple effect you are stimulating, but thank you for continuing!

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