MIRACLES

 

MIRACLES

Nature or its beauty cannot be explained

other than a miracle once ordained

by the Creator in the beginning

when life was established by God speaking

“and it was so” and “it was good”

as only the one true God could.

God created plants and trees

to bear seeds in their fruit, you see,

for God works out every detail

even making flowers male and female

with pistils (F)

and stamens (M).

Consider the lily for a minute

which propagates from a bulb,

yet it will reproduce offshoots,

or seeds it might also produce.

Certain lilies produce bulblets in their leaf nodules.*

Two or more per nodule. A real miracle!

*(Scientifically, bulbils in leaf axils.)

Patient gardeners will wait

for lily seeds to re-create.

Three years later they are rewarded,

for gardeners are not often thwarted,

with many pretty blooms

after the foliage zooms.

Or the bulb will one day multiply

under the soil where buried it lies.

Each year they’ll return

as if being reborn.

Another miracle in the offering.

One of the many joys of gardening.

Day lilies might also produce seed pods

as well as multiplying rhizomes in the sod.

Each “plant bearing seed according to their kind”:

lilies, purple cone flowers, rudbeckias, columbine,

oregano, parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,

from God who showers blessings of rain or daily sunshine.

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"Creation shows the power of God

there's glory all around

and those who see

must stand in awe

for miracles abound.

I believe in miracles

I've seen a soul set free

miraculous the change in one

redeemed at Calvary

I've seen the lily push its way

up through the stubborn sod

I believe in miracles...for I believe in God."

By John W. Peterson

No one can say it better than this songwriter

so I'll leave you with this hymn to ponder.

Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation:

seed-bearing plants and trees on the land

that bear fruit with seed in it,

according to their various kinds." And it was so.

The land produced vegetation:

plants bearing seed according to their kinds

and trees bearing fruit with seed in it

according to their kinds.

And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:11-12

This is one lily mentioned in the above story.

In my family, Grampa's Lily.

Not only does the bulb reproduce, there are 2-3 bulblets in the leaf nodules.

What a miracle!  

Four summer's ago the dreaded red lily beetle descended.  

Impossible to keep up with trying solutions to destroy them.

I thought I lost them, but Tuesday when I was cleaning up after winter,

I saw they were poking out of the mulch.

Will be treating as maintenance when the rains subside. 

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