Thank you, my LOVE!

(the card said: "I'm sorry we cannot spend it together.")

isn't he sweet?



only part of the mystery has been revealed...(although I did grow suspicious when he was drilling me about my work schedule this week...)


I LOVE YOU, honey!

Daisies: Part Deux

I got the most beautiful flowers I have ever received today... Gerber Ds. 4 pink, 4 red, 4 yellow. Yes, GBR, that's 12!!

Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.

John 13:34-35, The Message

He had to get them from far away because he knows how much I love the 'friendly flowers.' He said he wanted to bring in a little sunshine to my dreary day.

[Little does he know that he doesn't have to send me flowers to accomplish that. He has been successful at brightening almost every one of my days since we met.]

He can prolly brighten yours too. Read his blog. It's at the top of my blogroll.

I love this man:

[S.Z.A. = a man among men.]

Why I Love Daisies.

In You've Got Mail, Meg Ryan's character, Kathleen Kelly, explains her love for daisies:


"I love daisies...They're so friendly. Don't you think daisies are the friendliest flower?"

I am in my apartment this morning and am staring at the fake daisies all over my apartment. Like Kathleen Kelly, I think that they are friendly little flowers.
But there are more reasons I like daisies (pink gerber daisies are my flavor of choice) than their inviting nature.

I like daisies because once they open up, they don't hide anything. I can see every part of the flower as it is wide open. This may sound ridiculous, but I think daisies are the flower of transparency.

What if we lived wide-open lives, hiding nothing from the community of God? How inviting would that be? It seems to me that people are drawn to us when we lay bare our joys and struggles on the altar and don't pretend to be something we're not. Daisies are "friendly flowers" because there's no beauty hidden but rather all of it revealed by the open nature of them.