Forcing the Flower

​He has made everything beautiful in its time. Ecclesiastes 3:11
 
What a beautiful large, plump rose! I cut the stem at an angle, under water, as the directions suggested. I placed it in a special bud vase, and set it on my husband’s washstand.
 
In a day or so, the flower just wasn’t opening like I thought it should.
 
“I’ll help it,” I thought.
 
Carefully, I pried open the blush color petals. Perhaps you have tried to force a flower to open before it is ready? It didn’t work for me!
 
Too often I am impatient with how things are going, and I get involved to try and “help” speed up the process. Forcing this flower to open clearly brought home the message to me that, even though it is ok to be an action person, it is also wise to be patient. There is a rhythm, and a time (key words: His time), for everything. Thank you , Lord, You make everything beautiful, in Your time.
 
That is Good News.

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Ecclesiastes 3
1 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.