Heaven in a Wildflower

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”

- Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NKJV)

Have you ever met someone you felt like you have “always known” and have an instant rapport and bond with whose friendship deepens with time?  Or others that you have had a friendship for sometime that God later “reveals” a deep “spiritual love and purpose” in your human journey?   Did you realize your soul had always known even if your mind was not yet conscious of that bond and love?   

Twenty years ago my spiritual mother Ethel gave me a book called Heaven in a Wild Flower.  I recently opened her gift and began to read with new and teary eyes.  Ethel’s message is so clear to me now and the book is inscribed simply "to Elizabeth, love Ethel 1994."  The author, Joan Winmill Brown dedicates the book to “my friend Ruth Graham who has so often shared with the One who has made ‘all things bright and beautiful.’”   I now understand that God’s time is not according to me.  I have changed so much since I lost Ethel in 2007.  Ethel taught me that God is through her faithful presence in my life even though I can no longer talk to her.  As we serve others like Ethel, tend and water the garden, our souls and gardens blossom in God’s time like the wildflowers in my book:  Mustard – faith, Rose of Sharon – love, Anemone – peace, and Flax – joy.