What makes a flower bloom?
- Kathryn DeLadurantey
- Jul 5
- 1 min read

The sun....a chamber of harnessed power that, if unleashed, could destroy all we know.
Yet it behaves like a harnessed lion and a lamb. Strong yet controlled, as the earth circles it.
The hot afternoon sun as we work in the garden is not always a welcome feeling. Though the sun is controlled, it still brings heat, and then sweat drips off our foreheads.
But something like an unseen glory takes place in these mundane and unwelcome sunbeams.
Something is taking place that you cannot see, nor even understand in the moment.
Only one thing is meant and was meant to see this glory...And that is a plant.
There is a ray in the sun that, with our human eyes, is hidden; it is revealed only to the one who needs it.
As this one ray sheds its light onto the leaves of our non-blooming plants, it triggers cells to move within the plant to the right location, moving outward from the stem and out to the leaves. Almost speaking, pure motivation to become more beautiful, the cells then divide, causing growth, but only one kind of growth.
The only kind that speaks pure beauty for the single sake of being beautiful.
God made this. For the sun to speak one particular language for one particular reason, and that only reason is for our enjoyment! The feeding of bees and butterflies.
Your flower farm.
Kathryn
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