For my new beginning, I wanted to share with you why I chose the name "Flower Power". In recent months this has become a little phrase that has stayed with me frequently and it comes from Isaiah 40. There is a lot of great stuff in this awesome little chapter of the Bible, but in particular I love where it says the following in verses 8 and 29: "The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever" AND "He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak". I have meditated often on these words and what God is speaking to me. In recent months, as I have tried hard to listen for God's leading in the ministry and adoption processes, these verses have come to my head often. These 2 verses to me are so much of a summary of what I need to be reminded frequently AND what I want my message to be to others in everything I do. I now have begun to summarize "Flower Power" as what I believe is God's leading for my personal ministry. I have a dream to inspire others with God's message and to complete at least one of the bible studies I'm writing...FLOWER POWER MINISTRIES perhaps will be the name of my teaching ministry as a symbol for others to know that even if they feel weak, withered, and fallen, God's word lives forever and He gives us strength, POWER, and hope to overcome!
Besides, I was born in 1969, just at the end of the "flower power" 60s and I think it will be cute to put flowers on everything I get published :) hee, hee
Seriously, (well, semi-seriously) each of us really are flowers though, aren't we? There is a cute little song I have sung with kindergarteners for at least 15 years and the lyrics go like this: "Each of us is a flower, growing in life's garden. Each of us is a flower, we need the sun and the rain." I have thought so often about this when I teach it to my students each year and they ask for it EVERY DAY (because it's just so darn catchy and fun to sing!) It's a simple message really. We need the sun and the rain of course for obvious reasons...we need the sun to warm the earth and the rain to bring the water for our survival. But on a deeper level, we are growing in life's garden each and every day...whether we want to recognize it or not, we need the SON to warm our hearts with his love, and we need to be drenched with the rain of God's word, saturating our minds so that we may grow closer to Him and to each other. This will in turn provide the "armor" that will protect us from those things of the world that cause flowers to wither and fall.
This is what this blog is about. Sharing our lives with you our dearest friends and family. Lifting each other up and encouraging one another in God's word. It is my desire to share a word or two each time of what God has placed on my heart and hope to keep you updated on what we're up to in the process. I look forward to hearing your feedback and appreciate you reading!
Seriously, (well, semi-seriously) each of us really are flowers though, aren't we? There is a cute little song I have sung with kindergarteners for at least 15 years and the lyrics go like this: "Each of us is a flower, growing in life's garden. Each of us is a flower, we need the sun and the rain." I have thought so often about this when I teach it to my students each year and they ask for it EVERY DAY (because it's just so darn catchy and fun to sing!) It's a simple message really. We need the sun and the rain of course for obvious reasons...we need the sun to warm the earth and the rain to bring the water for our survival. But on a deeper level, we are growing in life's garden each and every day...whether we want to recognize it or not, we need the SON to warm our hearts with his love, and we need to be drenched with the rain of God's word, saturating our minds so that we may grow closer to Him and to each other. This will in turn provide the "armor" that will protect us from those things of the world that cause flowers to wither and fall.
This is what this blog is about. Sharing our lives with you our dearest friends and family. Lifting each other up and encouraging one another in God's word. It is my desire to share a word or two each time of what God has placed on my heart and hope to keep you updated on what we're up to in the process. I look forward to hearing your feedback and appreciate you reading!
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