We had all the kids over for a fish fry this week, so I grabbed five vases from the kitchen cupboard and five pairs of kid scissors and headed to the backyard.
The grandkids always love to cut flowers from our garden, which I usually micromanage, but this time I gave them free range. Cut any flowers you want and enjoy them because that’s why God gave them to us. Well, us and the pollinators!
Shining the joy of Jesus into the lives of our grandkids doesn’t require excessive time or extravagant projects. It just requires us to seize the simplest opportunities to celebrate the simplest truths. And the simple truth is, God made every beautiful flower and few things bring joy like a vase full of flowers that we picked ourselves! The kids loved it and every day, as long as the flowers last, they’ll be reminded that God made every beautiful one just for them.
‘God Made Flowers’ Companion Coloring Pages
KRISTI is the author of the Before books and coloring books for children and the Your Soul To Keep one-year prayer book for parents of adults. She writes to inspire parents and grandparents to shine the joy of Jesus into the lives of their families and to laugh without fear of the future (Proverbs 31:25). She and her husband Tim live in Iowa where they love doing life with their sons and daughters-in-law, six grandbabies, and two very spoiled dogs.