Last night I went to bible study. We looked into the commandment that says to 'love the Lord your God with all your our heart, with all your soul, with all your strength and to love your neighbour as yourself.'
This is the most important commandment of all, because all the other commandments hang from this one. This commandment is the corner stone. In order to love our neighbour, we have to love ourselves. In order to love ourselves, with out being self-important or egotistical, we need to understand how God loves us. I have written in an earlier blog how God loves us. We love him because he first loved us.
After a great discussion and prayer, I got up to leave. Jan had a bunch of beautiful fresh spinach, grown in her garden, to give away. She offered it to me and I halved it with Doug. Terry said "you will have to add them to your vase of flowers". Terry knows about the flowers, that have graced my home over the last 7months. She knows, because she has been one of God's servants who has cared for me. Terry also brought me flowers in the early months, not realising how precious this gift was to me and their significance. The arrival of flowers from kind people, beginning to reassure me, more and more of Gods faithfulness.
I arrived home one day to see a bunch of flowers at my door with a beautiful card. Terry relayed the story to me, of how the flowers ended up at my house. She felt urged to go to the florist this day and buy some flowers, but she didn't know what for. She came home and made an arrangement and then thought of me. When I saw them at my door and read her card, it touched my heart. I felt so cared for, I cried. I immediately gave thanks to God and gave him praise.
This morning I enjoyed looking at the luscious green leaves of the spinach that I had placed in a jar of water. Terry's voice recited in my head and the penny dropped. Yes, the spinach reminds me also of Gods love and care. His faithfulness. I will find a nice recipe for it and as my soul has been nourished, so will my body.