A Sunflower's View: Favorite Quotes

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Resolutions

After my big declaration about faithful posting yesterday, I feel I cannot, by silence today, go back on my resolution so quickly. However, I also find I have nothing in particular to say. So I think that occasionally I will share a quote or two that speak to me. Today I found several lovely and encouraging quotes. Here are a couple!

"The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust in them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through was a longing. … For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited."
~ C.S. Lewis

"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order for things to occur to you, to let your mind think."
~ Mortimer J. Alder

Why Sunflower?

I love sunflowers. I always thought they were pretty, and they remind me of autumn, my favorite season. But a few years ago they became my favorite flower, and one I want to identify with. I was traveling through western Nebraska one early morning and saw a whole field of sunflowers with their cheery little faces turned to the east, welcoming the sun. A few days later, driving past the same field, those little faces were turned more to the west, watching the sun march across the sky. And I realized that just as those little beauties always face the sun, so should I always have my face turned towards the Son, soaking Him up and allowing Him to make me beautiful and to bring blessing to others.