A story about our flower plant 🌺

I really love when a new perspective sets in and can allow you to push through in times that is really needed.

Today, I’m telling you a story about this flower because I believe it represents a certain type of people that are among us today, I feel I am this type of people and I believe they are you too.

So, last year Lucas built a flower bed, in which we lovingly planted some lovely flowers in.

Last year, during spring only one of those plants blossomed, then we cut it back during winter and this spring we have patiently awaited a new bud to pop up.

This particular plant finally started to grow a bud BUT for some reason, our dog Bruce decided that it didn’t deserve to be there and dug it up, the whole plant… Roots and all.
(I’m pretty sure his cousin Reggie the Dalmatian helped him out a few times too)

I was so upset at Bruce and I wanted to save the plant and nurture it back in the soil and back to health.

After several more dig up incidents with our dog and our resilient plant that kept growing despite being ripped to shreds, I decided to put Bruce behind the fence and only let him out when someone was with him.

This was to avoid any more dig ups and letting our flower finally get the chance to blossom.
And finally last week she did.

She may have taken a beating, been ripped out from her home numerous times and left looking broken, but she managed to bloom.

And she bloomed bigger then she did last year.

This flower reminded me of something that we all already know.

That when we are supported, nutured and have someone looking out for us to see us at our best, we can get through anything.
Even if that someone is yourself.

Life is a really big struggle for most of us and I’m seeing more and more mental suffering that I haven’t seen before.

People are being ripped apart, divided within their families and divided within themselves.
Our environment doesn’t feel very safe at the moment.
People are loosing their livelihoods due to certain decisions that are not even their own.

Its sad and I can resonate with how anyone could want to even try to bloom through this stage of our lives.

But, I’m here to tell you, we can.

We can still blossom despite what the world stage is doing right now.
We can focus inwards, nurture ourselves and others, support one another despite our beliefs and contridictions.

We do this by setting boundaries, from people, environments, social media, TV and work.

We spend time and energy with people who love us, respect us and treat us with the love we deserve.
With people that don’t define us by our choices we’ve made or haven’t made.

It’s hard work to replant and hope to survive again and again.

But if this flower can blossom after being ripped from it’s roots numerous times, so can you.

So there is the story about our beautiful flower plant.

May you be gentle with yourself today and always, we will get through this ✨💖