Daffodils
The vibrance of the daffodils, tulips and other perennials make me smile every year. You know what I really love about them? That I only had to plant them once and they keep on coming back. As long as they get sunshine and water they keep blooming year after year. But then I looked around my flower bed and do you know what else comes back year after year? Weeds. Lots and lots of weeds. I guess that's a lot like how life is. There are some blessings we have that once we make the effort seem to just keep on giving. There are also problems that have no difficulty cycling back through again and again. Sister Cheiko Okazaki instructed: "But mortality is designed as part of the gospel plan to bring us mingled experiences with good and evil, that we may learn from experience to make wise choices. And many of these experiences are painful. In most congregations of sisters (and brothers), even in hearts and homes in apparently ideal circumstances, there ar...