Wildflower moments

So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 8:15 NIV)

I love wildflowers. Tuesday was a perfect day for my mountain hike because I found wild flowers in abundance. And across the street from my house is an empty field. It is lovely to look at right now because it is dotted with purple and yellow and white.

But these are places I would expect to find wildflowers. What I really love most about them is that they so often show up in the most unexpected places: the dandelion that pushes through a crack in a busy city sidewalk; the clump of daisies decorating the edges of the county trash and recycling center; buttercups clustering at the side of a convenience store parking lot; and wild irises on the roadside in the rundown neighborhoods we only drive through.

Wildflowers are those little bursts of joy that decorate our lives in unexpected places. We all have wildflower moments... The funny memories of a loved one recently passed that makes us laugh through our tears; a frightening diagnosis inexplicably reversed; a phone call from a friend we had lost touch with; an unexpected card in the mail from someone who just wanted to lift our spirits. Wildflower moments are as vast as the varieties of wildflowers.

What have been some of the wildflower moment in your life? Watch for unexpected joy today. Maybe even start a wildflower journal... Moments of unexpected joy... Moments when you saw a glimpse of God working in a surprising way. It happens more often than you think.

Father,
Thank you for wildflowers that decorate our world and for the wildflower moments that decorate our lives. Amen.

Joys: the spring wildflowers at South Mountains; the pretty wildflowers in the field across the street; the many wildflower moments that happen when Cecelia is around