During times of stress, we need to turn within.

Yesterday, I discovered this group of Pasqueflowers with their petals wide open to the sun. However, several hours later it rained, and when I went by again, the flowers were now closed.

Like the Pasqueflower, it is important for us to turn inward and be nourished by our spiritual core - rooted in God - during times of stress. Only in this way will we find the strength to face life's challenges from a place of depth and spaciousness, a realm of our being which goes deeper and broader than the level on which our problems occur.

Photo: Pasqueflowers, Horsetooth Mountain Park, Larimer County, CO; March 30, 2013