Become crumbled soil, so wildflowers will come up where you are

 

There's a necessary dying, 

and then Jesus is breathing again.

Very little grows

on jagged rock.
Be ground.

Be crumbled,
so wildflowers will come up
where you are.

You've been stony for too many years.
Try something different.
Surrender.

Jelaluddin Rumi

Photo: Spring Beauty blooming in crumbled rocks, Denali National Park, AK, June 24, 2010

Quietly Bloom Without Fanfare

 

                                                        "The most fragrant of purest fragrances

                                                         comes from the ones who are spiritual but

                                                         not flaunting it.

                                                         Why flaunt your practices?

                                                         Why flaunt your good deeds?

                                                         Your flowers will attract the cosmic bees

                                                         that spread the Greatest Nectar

                                                         through humanity

                                                         as you just

                                                         quietly bloom

                                                         without fanfare."

                                                         Belle Heywood

"When you give . . . do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret."

Jesus

Photo: Mountain Avens and bee, Denali National Park, AK, June 25, 2010