Last Friday was a dreary day. It was, or had been raining, the clouds were
gray and low, there was no sun anywhere to be found. It was cool, with just a hint of a breeze. I had come to work feeling the end of the
week. It was kind of like Mondays, except
I knew I had to get through this day to get to the weekend.
The day didn’t start out well. I wasn’t feeling very well. I was getting over some kind of virus my wife
brought home for me to try on for size.
I had work that was piling up that I just didn’t want to get to. It was the dreary day outside that I described
earlier. And besides all of that, it was
Good Friday…the day Christians remember the death of Jesus Christ on a Roman
cross some 2,000 years ago.
I got up from my office chair about mid-morning and walked
around in the building. Looking outside
to the north, I decided to go on out and see what the weather was doing. I looked around there for a minute and saw
several bright yellow tulips in full bloom.
They seemed to be chasing away the gloom...doing exactly what the
Creator wanted them to do. They also
seemed to give me a lesson that day. Here
they are in the middle of gloomy day,
doing their job of encouragement and serving to shine in nature in a wonderful
way, in spite of all of the negativity, cloudiness, and darkness around them.
After I took a photo of them and sent it to Google for
storage, I went back to the office refreshed and at least somewhat revitalized. The weekend was better than I thought it
would be, and Easter Sunday was a wonderful day spent with family and friends.
I won’t soon forget those tulips. They taught me a valuable lesson. Maybe they have something to say to you, too.
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