Do Not Worry about Your Life

I truly don't think I have ever been in a field of flowers that is that large. One morning last week, my daughter took me to a nearby field that just happens to be in front of the Fujitsu company in Richardson. She had told me about this field of bluebonnets that just goes on forever. It took maybe 5 minutes to get there. I couldn't believe my eyes when we pulled up. This has been practically in my own backyard, and I didn't know about it. I felt a bit foolish!

As with other splendors of God - mountains, oceans, valleys, and the starry universe - there is absolutely no way to capture it with a camera or a video. You have to stand right in the middle of it and experience it! I wanted everyone dear to me to be right there with me to see it and breathe in the fragrance. Since that was not possible, I resorted to the usual - taking photos. Naturally, all the photos ended up looking the same and in no possible way captured the experience of standing in a field of bluebonnets. But I will bore you with them all the same!

What is it about flowers - millions of flowers! - that make us smile and uplifts our spirits? They are here one day and gone tomorrow. How can they impart such meaning and joy? It is a mystery. And it is also a reminder of Christ's words to us:

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you - you of little faith?

"So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." (Matthew 6)