Part 2 The opening Amaryllis

Four blooms for 2024!

Amaryllis means:

Proud

Strength

Determination

It is a Greek name which means

‘to sparkle.’

One grower claims his bulb has bloomed every year for 75 years!

Here is a quote, then my appreciation of what I saw this morning, and then another quote.

Flowers grow in silence, quietly, slowly, passionately, with great love and with all its power just perfectly.

Debasish Mridha (American Physician, Poet and Author)

Then here is a fascinating person. This is what he said, and then his life was much like that!

We can never be like lilies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

Oswald Chambers 1874 – 1917 Teacher, preacher, writer. This is how he died. ‘ Chambers was stricken with appendicitis on 17 October 1917, but resisted going to hospital on the grounds that the beds would be needed by men wounded in the long – expected Third Battle of Gaza . On 29 October, a surgeon performed an emergency appendectomy, however, Chambers died 15November 1917 from a pulmonary hemorrhage. He was buried in Cairo with full military honors. ‘ He was a Chaplan. I was so fascinated that I read more. You can too just press on his name at the top, the above is an extract from that source.

His widow published his books amongst them this one: “My Utmost for His Highest”. The work has never been out of print and has been translated into 39 languages.

Today is the last day of 2023. We reflect on all people have done, to make the year a creative time while travelling and at home. Thank you.

Sandy 🙂