A dandelion. It's a weed. It slowly grows into a yellow, almost flower. It soon becomes white, fragile, easily broken. Beautiful though. Until it is blown, and left bare. But it isn't left hopeless. Because if there is good soil, a new one will sprout up. And it is beautiful. Our hearts are like dandelions. We are born--fearfully and wonderfully made. At the same time, we have something broken in us, its called sinfulness. Left unchecked, temptation and our sin leads us astray. Then the Lord rescues us from that real guilt and shame. We are forgiven. And His very Word finds a place in our heart. It begins to grow anew making us a new creation.
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation;the old has gone, the new has come!"
- 2 Corinthians 5:17
Now I am off to a two mile run. Then ice cream and pizza.
Oh, how I love junk food.
Cindi
There we all are in the field....LOVELY analogy, I am in love with it.
ReplyDelete"left unchecked temptations and our sin lead us astray..." so right on. Just beautiful put cindi!
Gorgeous photos!
ReplyDeleteI love running, maybe when we meet we can run together :)
(we need to be together for like a week!!! :D) then we can have all the adventures that we want to :) including shopping and picture taking!!!
This was absolutely perfect. Those pictures were gorgeous, and I loved your words.
ReplyDeleteMm... we're having pizza and ice cream tonight too. Junk fooood... ♥
xo,
Jess
I love the 3rd!!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos! Dandelions are some of my favorite flowers. I love your analogy on dandelions. So true and so beautifully stated.
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The 3rd picture is awesome.
ReplyDeleteThe analogy? Perfect, lovely, beautiful. The words? Soaring. Your pictures? The best complement of your words. Dandelions are so ethereal, aren't they. Ugh, I'm just overcome with the loveliness of this post.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Rebekah
P.S. The third picture? EEP!!!! BEAUTIFUL. And junk food... You know it's the best. I'm serious. Around extremely healthy people, I feel slightly awkward. "I'm just gonna eat my ice cream over heeerre."
Very thoughtful post and gorgeous photos.
ReplyDeleteGirl, this was just amazing. Like seriously :))
ReplyDeleteYou all are too lovely. Thank you for your encouraging words! They really do bless me. :))
ReplyDeleteThat's a great analogy! Nice photos! Those are a ton of dandelions! :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. I love Dandelions.
ReplyDeletegreat photos of dandelions! junk food is the best, and the worst.. haha i hope you enjoyed yourself :)
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These are so beautiful! LOVE IT! :)
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