FRIENDLY FLOWER

I was refreshed this morning after a solid night sleep. I'm one of those people that "needs" her sleep at night. So Tim and I went for a long walk and as we were nearing home I saw it - spread out all over the field. Thousands upon thousands of them - such a friendly flower - THE DAISY! As I usually do every year at this time, I quickly inlist the help of whoever happens to be with me to pick as many as we can hold, bring them home quickly to get in water. (they droop fast) I put a couple of huge boquets on a couple of different tables.

In the movie I mentioned yesterday there is a scene when Joe brings Katheleen a bouquet of daisies and she says "I love daisies - they're so friendly. Don't you think that daisies are the friendliest flower?"

So I was wondering what the bible said about the word friendly. I didn't find too much but I did find a lot about happy. Pretty close, right?

Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise.

James 5:13

In addition to our own encouragement, we were especially delighted to see how happy Titus was, because his spirit has been refreshed by all of you. 2 Cor. 7:14

Don't you just love the thought of being delighted and happy in your spirit by being refreshed by others? Then we sing songs of praise and can't help but pass that on to others. It seems like people do more complaining about others than they do refreshing them, building them up. So today - be friendly - refresh someones day in the Lord!

You too will be refreshed.