Plant Flowers

 

A friend shared this meme today and it caught my attention.

Plant flowers.  Not discord.  Plant flowers, not just complain. 

The top of the meme said it's source was "winter sowers".  Now my mind was intrigued.  

Planting in the spring when the soil is warm and rich and the sun and rain promising is easy.  It doesn't take much faith to plant seeds that I will see sprouting in 7-10 days according to the back of the packet.

Planting in the winter- now that takes some faith and hope that spring will eventually come.

Planting in the winter takes intentionality and planning because there isn't a daily reminder with robins chirping and neighbors outside shoveling and plowing too.

Elder Steven E Snow in his address on hope instructed, "We should never let hope be displaced by despair. The Apostle Paul wrote that we “should plow in hope”  (1 Corinthians 9:10) The exercise of hope enriches our lives and helps us look forward to the future. Whether we are plowing fields to plant or plowing through life, it is imperative we, as Latter-day Saints, have hope."

In a world where despair, negativity and pervasive hopelessness are all around us, let us be flower planters.  Let us remember to be patient when those seeds don't instantaneously burst into bloom.  

Let us be confident in the Keeper of the Time.  Let us be assured by His promises.  Let us also do our part as we've been taught.  Let us be flower planters.