Maybe flowers are here to teach us
Maybe flowers are here to teach us how to be human.
How to unashamedly embrace our true nature no matter how different or beautiful.
To realise that we are not meant to look or sound or act the same.
That diversity is not just important but absolutely crucial for life.
To keep remembering that there is a sacred timing to things.
That there is enough room for everyone. And that it is impossible to bloom all year round.
Maybe flowers are here to teach us how to be human.
To stand tall like the poppy and strong like the thistle.
To be resilient like heather and reach our roots deep like the fig.
To defy the norm like the hawthorn.
To keep courageously opening like the peony.
To be to be unapologetic like the passionflower.
To remember our sweet innocence like the jasmine.
To take a leap into the unknown like the daffodil.
To be willing to risk it all the cherry blossom.
To know it’s never too late like autumnal blue.
To trust the changing seasons of our life like the hydrangea.
Yes, perhaps that’s what flowers are here to teach us.
– From page 159 of my book Letters to a Starseed
