Sonflower

It's been a challenging day, emotionally speaking, but for no solid reason whatsoever.  Some days are just like that, I guess.  But I like looking at the picture of this sunflower.  I have looked at it multiple times today and have used it to illustrate many spiritual lessons.  

It somehow soothes my soul.

I don't know how much I have to say about it right now.  I just want to look at it.  

I am so worn out from the challenge of caring for four needy, loud, fighting children, that I feel like I need to look up, like this sunflower is doing. 

I just need to look up. . .

to be a flower in an open field, soaking in the sun's rays

to stand with other flowers and just smile and breathe

to rise in the rain, and feel it cleansing me and refreshing me  

to endure the wind with confidence, knowing that my roots are secure

to spend every waking moment absorbing all the elements the earth has to offer

to just look at the sun

what kind of weather will cause me to snap?  

sunflowers have pretty strong stems  

I'm not a pansy

I'm a sunflower

I aim to mirror the Son

oops, I guess I meant to say "sun"

I'm a sunflower, I said

I am named after the Sun

I am named after the Son

I am created to look like the Son

to resemble His beauty

to draw others to thoughts of the true Son

not to snap like a blade of grass 

but to stand tall and strong

ever growing

to the heavens

never stopping

like a grand cedar 

except that I'm a flower

a Sonflower