Hope springs eternal and in my heart I sing for joy when my lavender plant blooms. Bought at a big box store with little hope for survival I put it in the ground when it was the size of my hand about five years ago. The first year it bloomed again, I gazed at it in wonderment at how it had survived the cold winter and the blazing hot Oklahoma sunshine. The next year it was ice cold in the winter and it rained for 60 days straight and I looked out in my garden and the lavender bloomed anyway. Two more blistering hot summers came and went. Everything dried up and grew brown and dreary, but in June the lavender blazed in it's glory! Bigger and bigger it grew, from the size of my hand to the size of a basketball, and then it grew some more to the size of a yardstick! This year it waited until after the two tornadoes and hail storms and 30 inches of rain, until today when I went out to hang my clothes on the line, I saw it!! It had burst into it's beautiful purple display of spikenard blooms!
Yes it is believed that the lavender plant is the spikenard spoken of in the Bible. It is over five feet wide and almost four feet tall! And I looked at it and I laughed and said, "If that small tiny no pedigree plant can be so gorgeous and majestic in it's beauty and glory, well then so can I!"
AND I HAD HOPE!
This is Pastor Susan Living the Everyday Prophetic Life FULL OF HOPE!
