Bloom where you are planted...

It never ceases to amaze me how a flower (or tree) will find its way through the smallest crack in the sidewalk, or highway. Somehow in the midst of the chaos, and worse conditions imaginable, it was able to bloom where it was planted. I'll never forget the flower I saw through a crack on the side of a busy highway...unchanged by the life around it, in full bloom....and it made me think...

"Bloom Where you are Planted" was one of my mother's favorite Sayings/Quotes. Explaining how we are all born into various circumstances, and go through many experiences in life, learning to make the best of it, and how, if we are willing to learn and grow in spite of the challenges or adversity we experience we too can bloom where we are planted. Experiences shape our character if we choose to react, but experiences should not define who we are, if we choose to act. ACT as we know we are supposed to, no matter what environmental conditions surround us. Nourish ourselves through sunlight/sonlight/light/truth, water/knowledge, and what we breath in/good positive energy. ACTING is not always easy because we all tend to REACT...

We all tend to have "If I only had" syndrome. In order to thrive we think we need to have our own home, or a new car, or that college education, or a better income, or on, and on, and on which are all fine goals but not if they are part of "If I only had" syndrome...the problem with "If I only had" syndrome, is that once you have- you move onto the next, "If I only had" item on the list that is needed for happiness, to thrive....and it never ends, and your happiness is never achieved.

I did not see that flower through the crack in the highway, withered and saying...if I only had a garden in a beautiful countryside. Somehow that flower just bloomed where it was planted and thrived.

Nature communicates many messages to us...if we know how to hear them...The seasons remind us of the time it is,under the Sun, and what we need to be doing...Summer/Garden of Eden/Plenty of good food growing from the earth...a time for basking in "plentifullness" and preparing for a time when there isn't as much.

Today, I am going to enjoy the moment! Bask in the plentiful blessing I have, focus on what the SON provides. Look at how I can Bloom/Grow in my current conditions, circumstances, experiences! Whether I have been planted in a beautiful Country garden, or a crack in the highway, I am still a flower...today I am going to "Bloom where I am Planted!" And YOU?