Before the Seed Comes the Flower

Saturday I discovered these delicate white flowers blooming in (at least to me) the most unlikely place--the asparagus fern that lives on my front porch in the summer.  I say unlikely because for many years I have had asparagus ferns and none have ever bloomed before.  Even so, I should have expected it. . .

Before the seed comes the flower. . .

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that  yields seed, and the fruit tree that  yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the third day.   Genesis 1

"For it is said that, though the fruit of the tree comes seldom to ripeness, yet the life within may then lie sleeping through many long years, and none can foretell the time in which it will awake.  Remember this.  For if ever a fruit ripens, it should be planted, lest the line die out of the world."

Gandalf to Aragorn

THE LORD OF THE RINGS, The Return of the King, pg.250 by J. R. R. Tolkien

Comments

[Angie in OH]

Beautiful pictures Kim and I love the scriptures you quoted in your post!