Hullo,
Hi!...How are you all doing? It's been a while since I have blogged, I know. Life has been so hectic. I mean, more than usual. Still so much has been going on in my spirit at the same time, but then that is usually the way it is with me. The busier my life gets the more I hear from the Lord.
So I decided it's time I sat down and wrote again. I have so very many things I want to say. So many things that I don't know where to start. I don't suppose I can possibly capture everything the Lord has spoken to me over the last couple of months. Even the highlights would be pushing it a bit. There is just so much. My life seems to have been invaded by a sudden upward tornado type of heavenly wind tunnel that has encompassed me. It takes me to and fro to my every destination. As though I have no choice in the matter. (Of course we all know I do, God in his greatest gift to us giving us free will) Still I am compelled to move by the spirit to each destination. And move I do. In both my natural state and my spiritual state. Reaping the blessing of obedience for being what I see as simply...carried away by God's Holy Spirit.
These last few months I have experienced such heart ache and grief. I have mourned and surrendered to God once again, hopefully for good, the most precious of his gifts to me. Receiving back in return a release and peace I have never, ever experienced in my life. Ever.
This last month I almost watched my father die in my arms and in this spent many hours with him, a frail old man, listening to him, sharing with him and praying with him at his hospital bedside...I was graced with healing and peace with my childhood past.
This last month I have been reminded of how frail we all are, every one of us, that we never know when our time is up here on this planet....and that we NEED to go out of our way to make thing right between the people in our life who God put in our path, family, friends, neighbors, co-workers.
We don't have time to hold grudges...We don't have time to "take time to GET OVER IT".
These last few months I learned I wasn't created to BE loved ~ I was Created to Love!
I was Created in the Image and likeness of my Creator and I am going to do everything in my power to live the rest of my life by the Grace of God living like him!
I am still just Amy Colleen...but I am working diligently on becoming a true SonFlower!
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I WANT TO BE A SONFLOWER
Here I am once again, wondering what should I do;
Close my eyes and hope for death? Or keep on pressing through?
Oh how I long to be like Him, my Master and my Friend.
Strong, courageous and full of faith, right up 'till the end;
My heart it aches to be renewed, with love from on high;
But how it groans from all the pain, that makes it's home my life.
Oh Dear Jesus, how I love you! You are all the joy I know!
Come Holy Master and Create, a masterpiece to show!
Take all the pain, disgrace and despair, that makes it's life my home;
Replace it with your love complete, like no one has ever known!
I give you all I have to give, and still some more please take.
Please come my precious Jesus, take me now and make...
A flower bold and beautiful, that can't be overlooked;
One that springs forth in surprise beside a trickling brook.
Please make me a Sonflower, so there will be no doubt;
That without the light of the Son, I could never have come about.
A single flower that began as a weed, where it's seed happened to fall.
Taking on the likeness of the Son, is it's only call.
As it grows so tall and strong, reaching for the sky;
Is when it springs forth in surprise, for all those passing by.
A Sonflower that inspires praise, to God for all it's worth.
For it's magnificent beauty and the seeds of life it births.
Yes Lord, a Sonflower is what I want to be.
Though at times, it's so hard, to grow up as a weed.
I know that if I stay in your light.
Drink only of the rain of the river of life.
One day when my time has come;
I too will resemble the Son.
No more wishing this weed were dead.
Just the picking of this flower for your centerpiece instead.
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~F.Y.I~
You will note the spelling of "Sonflower” with an "O" for Jesus, the Son of God.
Why I wrote this:
One hot summer’s day, while talking with my neighbor I was asked the question, "If you could be a flower, what flower would you want to be?" I answered, “A sunflower." My neighbor quickly replied, (with a snicker, I might add.) "Why would anyone want to be a weed?”
I thought about it, and our Dear Lord gave me a revelation on the sunflower; now more than ever I want to be a Sonflower!
Did you know?
Sunflowers, when first sprouting from the ground are not considered flowers at all? They are in fact considered a member of the weed family. However, when in full blossom, the sunflowers bold and magnificent beauty paves the way so that they cannot be denied their place in the flower family. In a sense, I guess you could say they’ve been adopted! ~chuckle~
There are many different types of sunflowers. Each one of them different, in shape, color, size and purpose and yet every one of them resembling the sun.
Some of them are single flowers that in full blossom can reach up to 16 feet in height, 36 in. in diameter. Others grow in clusters sharing the stem that brings them life.
Sunflowers need lots of water and must have full sun everyday to reach their “full potential”. Although sunflowers will not die immediately without the light of the sun, they will not blossom without its light. Although once a sunflower seed that sprouted with “full intent to blossom”, without full sunlight and lots of water, the seedling will remain in its weed state, and eventually wither and die. As a seedling the sunflower needs water daily. As the sunflower plant grows and matures it has the ability to retain moisture and can go a long time between rain-fall. The sunflower from day one, even as a weed, follows the sun, east to west, dawn to dusk.
The sunflower is the strongest and largest of flowers. The harder the weather it has to endure the stronger the stem becomes. Sunflowers seem to grow best in fields of like sunflowers. However a sunflower’s true beauty is only fully appreciated when in the midst of flowers of a different family.
Sunflowers are the most productive of flowers, as well. They have no thorns for their beauty. They provide seed for the sewer and food for the birds of the air, the animals of the field and people alike.
You can find sunflowers wherever the sun [Son] shines for at least one half the hours in a day.
Be blessed as you bask in the Son!
