Hard
work has its rewards. For example, last spring Dennis worked to plant potatoes
– yellow, red, and a few blue. When the potato plants were host to some nasty
potato bugs, he carefully looked over each plant and squished the bugs he found
feasting on the plants’ leaves. Then, when the vines yellowed and died down, he
dug the potato crop with the help of Bill and Zander.
The
buckets of potatoes were his reward. He had earned them.
Sometimes,
though, good things come to us through no effort of our own. For example, this
summer a healthy stand of American bellflower appeared in a bed of vinca that
lines our driveway. It is one of my favorite Kansas wildflowers, but I did absolutely nothing to make this
happen. The flowers somehow made their way to this spot.
Dennis
earned the potatoes. I did nothing to earn the flowers. They are a grace
bestowed by Mother Nature.
May
some unexpected grace come to each of us today.
Copyright 2016 by Shirley Domer
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