Following the Sun

"Keep you face to the

sunshine

and you cannot see the

shadows.

It's what sunflowers do."

---Helen Keller

I can think of nothing better to symbolize how I would want my life to be like than that of a sunflower. Did you know that from the time a new sunflower sprouts they follow the sun? They have a bud from the beginning that grows upward and larger, some up to 10 feet high, others only 18 inches. But they track the movement of the sun across the horizon, not worried about the weeds growing up around them or the shadows lurking beneath them. When the sun goes down they turn their heads back around to the east to anticipate the sunrise. The sun is their only hope and strength, producing a harvest of seeds for the sower. When they reach the end of their season they turn their heads to the east and they stay there, no one knows why. As their heavy-ladened heads grow weary from all the kernels of life, their heads bow, too heavy to lift. That is life worth desiring. We look to Him each day with out worry, and joyful in the hope that only He can give; bowing faithfully towards Him in prayer in times of darkness and anticipating what He will show us tomorrow as we continue to grow in His wisdom; and when the season begins to come to it's end, or we are just weary from life's suffering and struggles, we look to the East in patience and humility, longing for a Saviour.