A flower unfolding: first it’s new and fresh, small and tightly folded. The fragrance strong yet tiny. The petals slowly relax and become comfortable – opening more and more – and with it, the fragrance surfaces in its full intensity, completely ostracizing all other odors. The flower fully opened speaks through that fragrance. Time passes and it slowly begins to wither and die – just around the edges at first. It becomes so comfortable it begins to release it petals until it looses all of them. What remains is the seed that will bring new life.
So goes my relationship with Christ: Tight, new, fresh in the beginning. Then so comfortable I begin to lay down my life, my self for Him. The more comfortable I become in Him, the easier it is to put aside my inward focus, my misplaced priorities, my me-ness. The fragrance of my life begins to speak and act more like Him than me. One day I will die leaving the seed I have sown to carry on as I join our Savior in Heaven.