Dandelion Love

A child's first flower of love. 

The promise of wishes to come. 

A smile of love given from the heart. 

Not a weed.....

But a million miracles 

Of hope and love found in one dandelion 

In the eyes of a childs heart.

~BETH~

In the Garden Love
April 2015

PlayDate ~ The Joy Of One More Day

One more gift, of one more day of play.

That is the way I felt this very moment and day.

We had a horrific scare with CK over the weekend. But the Lord was gracious and saw fit to give us the gift of more time.

I praise God for that. As she is so special to my hubby and I.

So my play date is with my best friend CK!

We took a short stroll across the street to the field where she loves to play.

Of course she has to sniff at every little blade of grass along the way.

The wonderful scents after a wonderful Spring rain for her to sniff and discover...

Only she and God knows.

She found this lovely banquet of green grass blades.

I'm sure she was grassing a bit on the sweet blades. She loves the sweetness of them.

I remember as a child picking the blades of grass and chewing on the sweetness of them.

Just as you and I take deep breathes of the sweet beauty that surrounds us.

She stopped at every turn. Taking in each wonderful piece of glorious beauty of the freshness of the morning air and scents.

Lessons I'm sure I should be taking in as I breathe in each sweetness of fresh air of beauty that He has blessed me with.

As we strolled about we took our time.

Just taking in each moment of the drizzling rain and beauty that surrounded us.


Grassing On The Green Blades


As we headed towards home we crossed over to the sidewalk unaware of the treasure we would find.
As we headed towards the cross walk.
There it was!
We had found the golden lost banquet of treasures left behind.
I'm sure by some small child, to be given in love.
You see this golden treasure is the banquet of sunshine from the dandelion. The wild weed flower that warms my heart of childhood memories of days gone by.
As CK stood over the scattered lost banquet of sunshine to be given in love to some mommy;
I felt as though my CK girl had just blessed me with my sunshine banquet of beauty in this weed the dandelion. (To her mommy)
She had stopped in the center half circle perfectly looking at them then up at me. As if to say look mom I have found you a banquet of sunshine beauty for you.
She may not have picked them. She may not even really know. But somehow in this moment of time God blessed us with one more day.
He blessed this moment with His divine love.
He blessed us with a bit of sunshine from the banquet of golden scattered weeds of dandelion's, in the mist of the drizzling overcast rainy day.
You see He knew the importance of the day and the beauty of the dandelion weed to me.
He knew I needed a smile and bit of sunshine brought into my life.
I think He blessed us with one more day of play as He designed those dandelion weeds to be a blessing one more time, before their life faded away.



Mom's Banquet Of Dandelion's


The scattered love of the dandelion. This is the love that lays on the ground broken and fading away.
But the joy of one more day brought life back into these fading dandelion's of sunshine of childhood memories.
They made new memories for a girl named Beth and her companion CK.
The Lord saw fit to bless us with the joy of one more day.
These lost and broken dandelion's bring joy and sunshine to warm the heart with memories of the love the Father has for us.
As He knew the joy they would bring to me.
Hand picked by the Father above with love from Him to me.
Giving us the joy of one more day!

KJV

Job 29:13

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 

Scattered Dandelion's Of Love

                  Below is the link to the "Finger Print Friday" on the dandelion. If you'd like to read it.

http://lifesbeautynuggets.blogspot.com/2011/04/finer-print-fridaythe-dandelion.html

When you where a child did you pick grass blades and chew the sweetness out of them?

Finger Print Friday~The dandelion

It is Friday and time to find that wonderful fingerprint that God has left for us to find and share.



Fingerprint Friday

There is a song by Steven Curtis Chapman that says:
I can see the fingerprints of God
When I look at you
I can see the fingerprints of God
And I know its true
You're a masterpiece
That all creation quietly applauds
And you're covered with the fingerprints of God
So look around you and see where YOU can see God's fingerprints. Is it in nature? Kids? Animals? Where do you see them?

Head over to "The Rusted Chain" and link up with Beki at:

http://www.blog.therustedchain.com/

The most amazing weed in the ground is the dandelion. It is the first flower we give our moms with bright eye smiles of love. We see the sunshine beauty and make this wonderful bouquet to brighten our moms face with smiles to last all day.

Little did we realize we were lovingly giving her a bouquet of weeds. The most beautiful of them all.

I still smile at the sight of a dandelion and the bouquet is still my favorite when given from the heart and smile of the love of a child.

The field across the street where CK girl and I walk is filled with their beauty and shiny bright yellow light.

Today I saw a precious little girl carrying some home. I'm sure to her mom to brighten her day and to say "I love you".

I always look for them in the early Spring as they bring back such wonderful childhood memories.

My daughters always brought me my yellow sunshiny weed bouquet to brighten my day; along with "I love you mommy". How I miss those days and the yellow sunshiny bouquet.

I even sometimes pick them still and bring them home and set them in cup, just as I did when I received them and my mom did as well.

Always a small plastic cup with a little water, then sat on the kitchen counter to be admired by all who came into the kitchen for a glass of water or a snack.

I'm thinking today after work I may have to go pick my bouquet of yellow sunshine dandelions to put in my kitchen to brighten my little spot in the world.

The beauty of their golden faces bring such love and joy.

I may not like this weed in my yard or garden but I surely love it when it is given from the love of a child.

May we all have a beautiful bouquet of yellow sunshine dandelions fill our cups to over flowing with the love when given with the heart of a child.

I'm looking for cups filled with this wild flower the dandelion.

I'm thinking God knew exactly what He was up to when he made this weed so bright and shiny for us. It was the only flower we could pick in the garden and not get into trouble as a child.

The perfect flower in the love of a child's hand.

NIV

Isaiah 35: 1-2

The dessert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of the Lord, the splendor of our God.

Did you fill your hands with dandelion's of love to give your mom or your children to you?