I Will Praise Thee

This image started with a photo of a bleeding heart flower taken in my back yard. I've never really been interest in gardening. I like flowers, who doesn't, but I never had the desire to actually plant them and grow them myself. Just didn't want to. Then we moved into this house, and there was already a ton of perennial flowers planted here, so I was inspired and kind of went crazy planting more.

Isn't it amazing how unique and beautiful all the different flowers are? God is truly a creative genius, and I think that his creativity in nature is a reflection of his love for us. He could have made everything black and white, but He gave us color. He could have made all the plants the same, but He gave us an amazing variety. He could have made the world an ugly place, but he made it beautiful, in part just for us to enjoy. How cool is that?

So anyway, I had this crazy big bleeding heart bush in the back yard, but my four-year-old daughter pulled most of the flowers off to make "pretend soup". So I quickly got some shots of the remaining flowers while I could. I didn't really have a verse in mind when I took this photo, then I started searching and found several "heart" verses I want to use, so I went back and took MORE photos, and started looking for more heart-shaped things. So you will probably notice a lot of hearts on this blog!

My oldest son (he's 6 and just finished kindergarten) saw me sitting at the computer working on this image and asked me what verse I was going to use for it. So I grabbed the nearest Bible and showed him, and to my surprise, he read the whole thing! Even the word "marvellous"! (The whole verse is "I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works"). So no more underestimating his reading abilities! The next week he read most of the first chapter of Jonah with me with very little help. So proud of him!