Dearest Berit, thank you for this gorgeous yellow bloom that is indicative of so many flowers in my life...

Flowers are the one thing that reflect so perfectly God's Love for us and the planet. Such dazzling colors, magnificent forms and exotic perfumes. Today I found the most amazing white desert bloom in my vegetable garden. I transplanted it to a pot where it is sure to bloom some more. From there I will collect some seed and then plant some more. This year I am having a large vegetable garden and a large wild flower garden. I will share all of them with neighbors and friends and people at the food bank who need food and perhaps some happy-faced flowers to be their friends. This will be so much fun.

And when will the flowers of love in our own heart bloom? Just a little willingness will open the bud! Just a little curiosity and allowing our precious Father to enter our lives...to enter our hearts with his tender love. It is actually not so difficult. As we slowly drop our awarenss...from the busy marketplace of the mind...just drop from the mind with all of its knowing and judging and busyness...just drop into the warm tenderness of your own heart. Yes...like that...yes...so patient and still.

Thank you Berit for eliciting all of these words...all of ths Love. Jim and Jimi.