Connections

Hyrum (10) has some great insights about this photo when he saw it over my shoulder.

"Hey, mom, this is like life.  We are dropped onto the earth and it is through trials and growing that we become flowers.  But we need to be careful to not become weeds!"

I love principle-based learning.  We are always looking for connections and context in our home for the things we learn and are exposed to.  What an insightful little conversation!   We had a devotional on "spiritual traction" yesterday where we talked about our burdens will actually help us grow and we shouldn't be always looking for ways out of them...but rather what can we learn from them.  What a timely, inspired message for our friend to send through this picture as a way to reinforce that lesson!