Grandma's Wisdom

You all remember the orchid plant that Tyler gave me for Valentine's Day. The most beautiful flower I had ever seen. I researched hard to learn everything I could about how to take care of Orchids. One web site said water them every day, each flower individually, another told me to water once every two weeks. So I stumbled each day to do my best to guess on what I thought the flower needed. Sadly, I failed. In about two months my poor orchid plant had died. I was so bummed, but couldn't bring myself to throw away the plant.

A couple of weeks ago I went to go visit my Grandma. My grandma is so devoted to her garden in her backyard and knows everything a person could imagine about flowers. So I asked her (Yes, I should have asked her sooner), but regardless the time was now, so I said, "Grandma, how do you take care of an orchid?" and what was her answer?

"Oh Sarah, let me tell you something, you cannot kill an orchid. No matter what you do, they are stubborn plants and they are impossible to kill. They just need sunlight and a little water and love and they will last."

Shamefully, I said to her, "Grandma, I think I did the impossible. I killed my orchid." As a Grandma would, just comforted me and told me not to worry, that I would see. She explained that there was no way I had killed an orchid and she just could not believe it. She tried so hard to encourage me, and I appreciated her love but honestly, I was not hopefully about this orchid.

Flash forward to a couple days ago. I walk in my living room, and what do I see. My orchid is blooming again! It has two small little buds, the prettiest buds I've ever seen, and my heart fills with joy. Yesterday one of those buds began to bloom, and let me tell you something, it made me happier that I ever thought a plant could. But maybe the beauty of is it that I thought life (for that little plant) was over, that the worst thing that could happen to this flower, had happened. But somehow God always has a way of showing me that when bad things, things that we don't understand, or things that make us sad, mad, frustrated, or anything, happen,  we just have to be patient, because the beauty is coming.