Resilience

Be resilient like the lilies of the field. Their lovely blooms sway in the breeze; their stems bend and bow in the wind. And, when the season ends, they dry up and disappear.

Some things end. Somehow, somewhere, the life you know is going to change, maybe even disappear. You can expect sad and hurt feelings…the terrible pain of disarray – a crazy mood may bend and blow in the wind… better one day; worse the next. Why hold on?

As the season changes the lilies come back again. They are perineal. Are you familiar with that word?

What are some of the things have you come back from; what in your life have you suffered through – loss, grief, heartbreak – and survived?No. I’m not talking about a winter/summer thing, either. We’re not plants for heaven’s sake. No. But we can be perineal... like the lilies.

Matthew 6:28