The road from my house to town is now closed because a bridge on the route is being removed and rebuilt so I have to take some back roads to get into my home town of Livingston.

Last Saturday morning I was driving one of those little back roads when I noticed this field of mums that are for sale. See the picture below….

Just a few days previous to Saturday I passed by this same field of mums and hardly even one mum was bloomed out. The thoughts for this blog rapidly began to swirl through my head.

I haven’t written a blog since Mother’s Day weekend and felt just dry and non inspired. A lot of people do not realize that you cannot just sit down and write a blog. I feel the words have to be inspired and come to you in your spirit before you can write them.

As I looked at this field of mums I wondered what had dried up my inspiration so much lately. The mums looked dried up before but now with some cooler temps and a little rain they are gorgeous!

The thought just hit me as I was driving. The pandemic and covid is what has dried up my spirit! I have felt isolated and lonely and miss my grandchildren terribly. The world as we all know it has come to a screeching halt and it seems that people everywhere are in a bad mood and irritable, eating too much, staying up too late, working from home, home schooling, virtual learning, missing church or whatever! Nothing appears normal!

I began to think about the mums and how the hotness of the sun, the dryness of the air had kept them from being their beautiful self. I compared that to our pandemic and how the isolation, the too much free time on our hands, the irritability all around us and the lack of love was doing the very same thing to us humans as the weather had been doing to these mums.

As I drove on into town that Saturday morning I went through the drive through at the Dairy Queen to get my husband and I a biscuit and I saw this and this……….

Another part of this blog began to form. Our local Dairy Queen has put out a glorious fall scene for years and years and it always touches me. The owner probably doesn’t even realize how much it lifted my spirits that morning. I know that his business on the inside had slowed down quite a bit because of Covid but as I rounded the drive through he has come up with a new plan and the food travels down this little conveyor belt and you pick it up out of this automatic window. Instead of sitting on his do nothing and worrying about his business the owner decided to try something new. How inventive!

I thought back to the field of mums again and how the coldness of the weather and the rain had caused them to really blossom. Of course you say that is how mums are supposed to do but God showed me in that simple lesson that we humans are also made to withstand the cold and the rain of life and come out more glorious than ever!

Here is something I read today and how very true that it is:

Let us please remember to be kind, to know that we will get through this pandemic, to pray for the families that fall victim to the virus, to fill our time with things that are good and pure and stop arguing over politics, masks, or whatever. Let us rise above it all and bloom with glory where we are planted!