Find something...

A neighbor's yard down the street has been unkempt for weeks now, and when you look at it you could certainly be tempted to say,"Aaaah--what a mess, I don't want any of those to flow over into my yard!"

It really is FULL of dandelions. As I took my walk around the block this evening, I felt compelled to come back with my camera--what amazing creatures dandelions are! I've always avoided them --even when my students pick them from the playground yard and bring them to me, I thank them, but I dump them right into the trash as soon as the students have gone home--weeds, weeds, weeds!

But when I tried a close up tonight, I saw the infinite possibilities:How gorgeous! What a world of potential!

It reminded me of the talk we heard in church today. The speaker noted that when he had been a young missionary, Sterling W. Sill had come to talk to them, and told each of them that they had a skill--something that they could do better than anyone else. If they wanted to be successful in life, they needed to find out what that skill was, work hard, perfect it, (market it, I'm sure) and they would be rich. He took the speaker at his word, found out what it was that he could do better than anyone else, and went to work.
(And he is rich! He has machine shops that make a certain part used by Arabs in their oil field machinery--and it seems that he's the only one making that needed part, or making it better than anyone else! --But that wasn't part of his talk, I just happen to know the continuation of the story.)
Hmmm... I don't think I've found the thing that I'm better at than anyone else... because I certainly don't have a bank full of money--but I do consider myself very rich, with a family I love and a job helping children to realize some of their potential.