Photo ©2024 by Amber Jurgensen
Commentary ©2024 by Russell Jurgensen
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Generally, one peony flower is not terribly exciting. But this one is very exciting to my wife. We have lived at our home for almost 30 years. This peony plant was here when we moved in, so we don’t know how old the plant is, but it is over 30 years old. During these decades, this peony plant has not bloomed for unknown reasons. My wife watered it and babied it, and nothing happened. It was some distance from the house so after perhaps ten years (yes, a long time!) she transplanted it closer to the house for easier care. She began to think of it as a pretty little bush rather than something that would ever produce a flower. But she still hoped. We are not sure what the spark was, but this year there was one bud on the plant which my wife watched excitedly for several weeks. The bud turned into this pretty flower. We don’t know if the bush will ever produce a bloom again, so many pictures have been taken of this flower!
The weather has been hotter the last few years, and we can see signs of that in some trees and plants. Maybe peonies like warmer weather.
In our lives we don’t need to wait for some big change to look to Jesus. We can always make the change ourselves to see a new position and gain the benefit of it.