Photo ©2009 and Commentary ©2025 by Chuck Davis
Monday, September 15, 2025
Last week’s Photo Parable featured my Mother’s favorite wildflower (the Tiger Lily). This week I am sharing another flower, the Avalanche Lily.
These flowers (Erythronium montanum) appear soon after the spring snowmelt. A carpet of these beautiful white blossoms can blanket an entire mountain meadow. This covering on steep hillsides led to their common name. I like to think that Jesus had flowers like these in mind when he spoke about the lilies of the field.
“And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?” (Matthew 6:28-30 KJV).
By faith, we will have a robe of righteousness. Imagine an avalanche of gleaming white robes. What a picture that will be.