The
hydrangeas are here. Full blown,
bountiful heads of blooms are everywhere.
Pink
heads, blue heads, fuchsia heads, celadon heads and heads dripping with colors
beyond imagination are swaying all over our garden.
Each morning a new shade comes out from hiding and slowly
spreads itself across the expansive heads of blooms. These evolving color hues
bring a fresh kind of osmosis inspiration
into our studio each day. Oh, we
will so be using these colors in new artwork!
These
hydrangeas just pour themselves out for us. They give and give and give, becoming better as their gracious and generous
nature unfolds.
They’re a bit like people.
When we pour
ourselves out for others or refresh others, a surprising result occurs …we’re
refreshed ourselves!
Refreshers are refreshed.
St. Francis of Assisi recognized this phenomenon clearly and captured it in the lovely expression, “it is in giving that we receive.”
Refreshers are refreshed.
St. Francis of Assisi recognized this phenomenon clearly and captured it in the lovely expression, “it is in giving that we receive.”
So,
for those of you who’ve been pouring yourselves out for others lately, or
giving when you just didn’t think you could give anymore, take a look at these
hydrangea blossoms. They just become
more beautiful in their giving.
And so will you. You’ll be
enriched, refreshed and renewed.
Don’t be surprised if you see some new hues of joy and strength
spreading across the landscape of your life.
The
Velvet Lime Girls
“If
you are generous… and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out, your lives
will begin to glow in the darkness, your shadowed lives will be bathed in
sunlight.” Isaiah 58:10
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| View from our studio |
