Heartsease

Perhaps the following was just for me, but just by chance...

A story is told of a king who went into his garden one morning, and found everything withered and dying. He asked the oak that stood near the gate what the trouble was. He found it was sick of life and determined to die because it was not tall and beautiful like the pine. The pine was all out of heart because it could not bear grapes, like the vine. The vine was going to throw its life away because it could not stand erect and have as fine a fruit as the peach tree. The geranium was fretting because it was not tall and fragrant like the lilac; and so on all through the garden.

Coming to a heartsease, he found its bright face lifted as cheery as ever. "Well, heartsease, I'm glad, amidst all this discouragement, to find one brave little flower. You do not seem to be the least disheartened." "No, I am not of much account, but I thought that if you wanted an oak, or a pine, or a peach tree, or a lilac, you would have planted one; but as I knew you wanted a heartsease, I am determined to be the best little heartsease that I can."

What did our perfect Lord intend for you to be in this garden called "life"? How effective could we really be if we submitted to what the Master created us to be?

I found some interesting things about this ordinary flower and its powerful uses on wikepedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartsease

There is peace in knowing that we belong to God and that He formed us in our mother's womb. There is only one you!