Readers -

Since I am a chronic pain sufferer like others that visit this site, sometimes I just have to lie down for a while, which sometimes helps and sometimes doesn't. During a particularly painful period of the last two days, I rested and picked up my smartphone. A person in chronic pain is always distracting themselves to focus on something else.

In an attempt to get some beauty of God into my soul this morning, I surfed the Internet for "natural flower photography", and came up with some gorgeous photos to look at.

After doing so for awhile, I went to the Joni Eareckson Tada devotional site which I do most days, as part of my devotional time. I cannot count how many times, the material or scripture for  the day that writes "aligns" with something I read in the Bible that day or something that was rolling around in my spirit that day. it's uncanny.

Today, before I checked her, I said out loud up myself, "I wonder if her devotional today has anything to do with flowers."

This is her scripture today, that she wrote her devotional based on:

Song of Solomon 2:1
"I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys."

Her entire blog post today is about Roses. She likens God unfurling our lives and His beauty to be found there, to His opening the petals of a rose.

You might check her devotionals out for yourself, and the flower photo link.  Those flowers are overwhelmingly beautiful - the beauty only God can create.

http://www.joniandfriends.org/daily-devotional/

http://m.pinterest.com/dwiw/natural-flower/

Jesus is Lord.