What a beautiful morning!! The Crepe Myrtles around our pool are in full bloom. The sun is shining and it is the perfect temperature! Praise God from whom all blessings flow!!

It occurred to me this morning that, for the almost three years, our house and property lay dormant with no eyes or hearts to see and appreciate these beautiful Crepe Myrtles. Yet, they still bloomed in those years. They still drew from the soil and worked to show their God-designed beauty, whether they were seen or not seen. And God tended them, as a faithful gardener, taking great pleasure in them, because they are “very good.”

Then, this morning, I was here to see them. I was present to witness their beauty and the heavenly intricacies of each bud. And in the glory of their completed purpose, I was washed with the revelation that we are seen and cared for by the loving, caring, ever-present, glorious God of everything.

We worship a surrounding God, a God who hems us in on every side and loves us enough to create a Crepe Myrtle. His power and his blessings are ever before us and ever working; sometimes moving, sometimes waiting for the exact moment to call us to worship, to call us to repentance. We need only pause, and look, with eyes of faith and knowing hearts.

You are not alone. God is not far from you. If he would tend a lonely Crepe Myrtle in the midst of untamed circumstance to unsure it’s beauty for such a time of praise and revelation as this morning, how much more is he tending to you! You are for the purpose of his greatest praise!! Pause and see his care. Stop and wonder at his power that is at work around you, and in you, and through you. Find comfort and confidence in his presence, and know that he is near. Then bloom, bloom for him! No matter where you are, no matter your circumstance!

Because, you are his.