What a Bud Becomes

Posted on Facebook, and it probably should have been a blog, so here it is... I wrote this one morning when working on my future home. The landscaping in the front was overgrown and we were working on it... for those who have done big projects know, often times you don't know how things will turn out when you start. So one day I saw this bud so I thought to capture it and share my thoughts on how a bud becomes a rose... or maybe not. 

This bud isn’t much, but we know from experience that if we work hard and take care of it that it will bloom and be much more. It is hard with other things in life, new things, to know if the bud will be worth the work… what if it doesn’t bloom, what if the color is wrong, what if a storm blows it off before the bloom… so many reasons why it is easy to not work hard for an uncertain future. 

Not sure why I felt the need to wax poetically about that bud… but it bloomed and I thought I could tell it's story. Lately I have felt that, felt that feeling of, is it worth the work? What will the bloom be? Should I give up, should I work harder... what if I work hard and it doesn't turn out? 

So the moral of my story was that we should do our best… all the time, regardless of if we think it will pay off. Maybe it won’t, but just maybe, it will bloom like this and make you smile. 

I thought about this while working on my home... will it be the home I really hope for, will the kids love it, will it be a good investment, will the garage be big enough, will the bathroom turnout like Jenn wanted... 

I thought about it while volunteering at La Casa de Amistad last week. I had a time nurturing that bud, I helped replant it, and for those who do plants know, sometimes it doesn't go well, sometimes they never bloom again, sometimes they bloom like you dreamed of... in this case, I sat back and smelled the bloom, a bloom like I could never dreamed of. 

We can never be certain what will happen to a little bud. It might bloom, it might not, it might not bloom when you are around, it might bloom in a different but beautiful way. We never know what a bud might become, but we should nurture it anyways.