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Joyce M. Coomer - on goldenrod and other wildflowers When we are insistent on everything outdoors being as neat or neater than the carpeted indoors, we lose the connection to God that we are all born with yet for some unfathomable reason strive to sever. God is in the outdoors as much, if not more, than He is indoors with unnatural materials and order. - JOYCE COOMER By Joyce M. Coomer Goldenrod and other wildflowers are a blessing bestowed upon us by God. We should give thanks to God daily that He, in His infinite wisdom, saw fit to bless our lives with such beauty. ] Lightning bugs dine on the goldenrod pollen. Bees are busy collecting the nectar to make honey. Butterflies exhibit exquisite beauty as they light on a stem of goldenrod, whether they are basking in the sun or dining al fresco. My pasture is filled with goldenrod, iron weed, wild asters in two or three colors, bind weed, morning glories, sand briars, wildflowers I cannot identify, grasses and clovers of all kinds, and this morning two sunflowers in bloom by the yard fence. (The sunflowers are from seeds the birds didn't see.) Honeysuckle is in bloom in the yard fence, and there are currently plenty of poke berries to feed the wildlife around our place. My pasture is also filled with the sounds of crickets and katydids, and the sight of goldfinches and doves, and little gray birds that move so quickly I can't identify them. The yard and pasture were both dotted liberally with fairy wash this morning, and the dew clinging to the amazing spiderwebs strewn hither and yon was a delight to see. When we are insistent on everything outdoors being as neat or neater than the carpeted indoors, we lose the connection to God that we are all born with yet for some unfathomable reason strive to sever. God is in the outdoors as much, if not more, than He is indoors with unnatural materials and order. Oh, and as a side note -- the presence of goldenrod pollen is highly unlikely to cause sneezing as the pollen is so heavy it takes a very stiff wind to blow it off the bloom. What is most likely to be causing anyone sneezing problems right now is ragweed. - Joyce M. Coomer This story was posted on 2013-09-26 10:51:52
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