Early in the first beginnings of summer Mom, Kyle and I went for a walk.

In downtown Flint there are not a lot of beautiful things to see and to look at. There are a lot of tall buildings and that’s about it. We went walking through the University of Michigan Flint campus and I did notice that there were some very beautiful flowers that lined the walk, also flowering trees that smelled just like spring. We walked down town and passed by a church built in stone and noticed that two beautiful dogwood trees stood beside the steps leading into the church. A couple of pictures went through my mind of the pastor greeting his people on a sunny afternoon on those steps… And I beautiful, happy bride and groom coming from those steps to start a life…

On the walk we just wanted to look at what spring had brought to Flint. I enjoyed that walk for days to come sitting inside the Inn when I couldn’t go out. I would go back in my mind to those flowers on that walk.

Here I live in Flint. It needs a lot more flowers. I thought of my life being a flower here in Flint. I can grow like Him even when I would really love to be planted in the country on the hillside of beautiful Amish Country Holmes County, Ohio or Prince Edward Island. Flint needs a lot more flowers growing here though. I have noticed that flowers grow from dirt something so beautiful has to grow from something not so lovely. And I need to grow here… I can “Bloom were I am planted” as the saying goes. God knows what He is doing and He has planted me in here. I think He must want more flowers in Flint.

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