{"id":3852,"date":"2017-09-08T07:49:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T11:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2017-08-29T11:53:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:53:17","slug":"flowers-in-the-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2017\/09\/flowers-in-the-home.html","title":{"rendered":"Flowers in the home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beauty of flowers can be brought into our home. It doesn\u2019t matter if our home is in a house, an apartment, a tent, or our consciousness. Our home deserves to be beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is about flowers, some smell really bad or are so potent they knock you out, therefore a stray dandelion found along the sidewalk, may be more suitable for inside the home than a grand lily grown in a magnificent garden.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, each day, flowers can add to the beauty from God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Song of Solomon 2:12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/7207089\">6<sup>th<\/sup> edition of <em>21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Science and Health<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nature voices spiritual law and divine Love, but the human mortal mindset misinterprets nature. Arctic regions, sunny tropics, coral reefs, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, flowering deserts, and galaxies\u2014all point to Mind, the spiritual intelligence they reflect. The floral apostles are hieroglyphs of Deity. Quantum mechanics, gravity, and the cosmos teach grand lessons. The stars make night beautiful and the leaf turns naturally toward the light.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3853\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/files\/2017\/08\/lilies-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3853\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/269\/2017\/08\/lilies-1-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"Lilies staying outside!\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilies staying outside!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beauty of flowers can be brought into our home. It doesn\u2019t matter if our home is in a house, an apartment, a tent, or our consciousness. 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