A Sunflower’s Tale
I’ve always been fascinated by the sunflower. I love its beautiful, bright, cheery petals that seem to reflect the beauty of the sun’s rays. Whenever I see one I never fail to think, “How beautiful!” However I’m not just attracted by it’s beauty, I’m intrigued by its story.
If flowers were known for their personality type the sunflower would be classified as an optimist. The sunflower always turns away from negativity. When everything is dark and bleak the sunflower turns itself until it finds the little sunlight that is peeking through the clouds and it turns its face that way. It focuses on the little positive and backs away from the negative.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be like the sunflower? To turn your back on the negativity and face the brightness of possibility? Just as the sunflower closes up and loses some of it’s luster and beauty in the dark so do we lose our bright smiles, enthusiasm and exuberance in the darkness of negativity.
Today let’s try to be like the sunflower. Let’s turn our back on the darkness of negativity and face the brightness of God’s possibilities. Remember God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble (Psalms 46:1) So when you’re going through a dark period in your life he’s the ray of sunshine shining through the clouds that you need to turn your face towards.
Re-posted from my blog.
Bernadine,
This is such a neat post…. I grew sunflowers in my garden this year hoping for seeds in the fall. They are amazing flowers. They do turn to face the sun as it treks across the sky. Right now they are loaded with young seeds. 10 feet tall and yes…. they are optimists…
Great analogy. Love you girl. Hugs. Lynn
What a great post! I know that I need to be more like a sunflower 🙂
You know, I tried to “face the brightness of possibility” after I had a few bad holes on the golf course in a tournament today. Unfortunately, I just couldn’t shake it. 🙂 I’m glad the sunflowers can provide a good example for us. Thanks for your insights.
Such a true post my friend.
This is beautiful Bernadine!
I so agree. I had a summer when My knee had surgery. Out side my kitchen window I feed the wild birds. That year several self seeded sunflowers grew and bloomed. Everytime I painfully walked to the kitchen sink I was greeted by them. It was a gift I was given by my loving God. I throw them there now to grow and thrill me year after year.
I love this one Bernadine. I want to live that way! My granddaughters picked a big bouquet of sunflowers this past week. They looked so sweet sitting on the counter of their brand new home.