YOU HAVE TO LEARN TO FLOWER WHERE GOD HAS SOWN YOU

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Be a dandelion?  Bloom in the face of people who want to dig you up and throw you away.  That is the dandelion you know. 

On every mountaintop there are trees growing out of rocks because they have latched on to the tiniest piece of opportunity; a few gathered grains of soil. 

And even in the desert an oasis rises green and vibrant against a backdrop of desolation.

And yes, there are a thousand trees that never grow and acre after acre of sand that produces no oasis.

 And yes, millions bemoan where they find themselves on the field of life and shrivel up and die, while others do prosper with no more than starlight when what they would prefer was the bright light of high noon.

 Not where you live but how you live where you live.  Not what is your job that you think is the worst job in the whole wide world but what do you do with the hours away from your job. 

Looking for people to love you or looking for people to love. 

 Many years ago, from time to time, a young man used to speak briefly to our mid day luncheon club.

 He did so from a twisted, sitting position that arthritis had frozen his body into.  He could not have stood if his life had depended on it. 

He spoke from a field of life not of his choosing, to spread beauty where otherwise people would see only the ugliness of deformity.

On November 29, 1623, William Bradford, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, made an official Thanksgiving Proclamation. 

It was their 3^rd year in the new country and all had not been going well.  Nearly half the Pilgrims had died and it didn’t look as if things were going to get better any time soon.  But what did Governor Bradford do?  He proclaimed that the survivors be grateful and thankful, and not allow themselves to be overwhelmed with complaining. 

It may have been an over-extension of optimism, but hurray for over-extension.

C. K. Chesterton  said there are two ways to have enough: one is to get more, the other is to desire less.  

What I am saying is that if you really want to be happy you need to fall in love  with your own life as it is over and over again. 

To search out and polish up the silver lining on your clouds. 

To look up at the night sky and see both stars and darkness, but allow yourself to be over-whelmed by the twinkling lights rather than by the deep dark blackness of outer space.  

Sometimes, because life has been unkind, we are like a seed – surrounded by darkness.  It is then we are truly challenged to grow toward the light.  

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