"You and I can never do a kindness too soon, for we never know how soon it will be too late."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be very careful, then, how you live – not as unwise but as wise. Making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:15-16
In the picture above these morning glories were planted in the spring from seed. The plants grew very full, lush and green. I waited for months, watching in great participation of multiple flowers filling each of my pots on my patio. I waited and waited; day after day, week after week. Finally, one day as I was carefully watering I couldn't believe it, I had missed the buds coming on. I loved the brilliant color. There was only one from all the plants that so fully filled the dirt. I came back in the afternoon and the flower was gone. Only several hours had passed by. It was several more days before I happened to notice another. If I wasn't looking for them, they would come and go before I could enjoy their beauty.
I find that life is like that. How many times are we in a hurry and their is a sales person that just wants someone to listen yet, we are in a rush to go through the line. Or there is an eldely person that comes into my path and they just want a touch, as I see a lonliness in their eyes. Maybe they have recently lost their love and are grieving their lifetime of memories. How many times do we make a to do list for the day and our children just want us to stop and play a game. Life is full of many opportunities to show loving kindness, a gentle touch or a wordless smile. Out of our own ignorance, we miss the divine appointment, only to realize later that the moment is gone, never to return. Just as their is beauty in a single morning glory bloom, how greater the beauty in receiving a blessing from an unexpected opportunity to touch the life of another!
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