Stop and Smell the Roses...all of them.

“Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fro:

He bustles about, but only in vain…”
(Psalm 39:6)

I was going in Wal-Mart the other day; just behind a lady who was evidently in a big hurry & extremely busy. She was in her business suit, with her phone to her ear & was dragging a little girl behind her. She was the cutest little girl who was… I guess about 6, dressed in her softball uniform with a visor. As the mom pulled her along through the automatic doors & past the greeter without speaking, she let go of the little girl’s hand to grab a buggy, the girl was skipping hurriedly behind… her mom still on the phone & walking faster.

They passed a hug display of flowers on their right, that the mom didn’t notice was even there, but the little girl, stopped in mid-skip, turned around hopped over to the display of flowers, that dwarfed her in size, & stuck her whole face in a gigantic bouquet of roses. I thought she was going to inhaul the whole bouquet, then she raised up with the biggest smile on her face & skipped away to catch up with her mother who hadn’t even turned around or stopped her phone conversation.

I was in a hurry that day, had a lot on my mind…but not after that…by the way those roses did smell good.

“Be still, and know that I am God”
(Psalm 46:10)

Vern