Flowers are beautiful this time of year. The gardens around the area are just blossoming with blooms of all colors, shapes, forms, and sizes. The avid gardener just can't get enough of flowers blooming at the same time. One flower just calls for another. And she's gotten me into the habit again, after many years of no flowers around our home.
Flowers have to be tended, watered, and fertilized.
Without the proper treatment, they will shrivel up and die, or refuse to put on blooms. Sometimes they will bud, but the buds drop off before opening. Our spiritual life is a little like flowers. It needs tending to constantly. It needs feeding, watering, and fertilizing often.