A ministry of Watermark Church, Anchored Sisters is women connecting with women to make an impression and leave a mark for Jesus Christ. Anchored in His love, together we Support, Inspire, Share, Teach, Encourage, Respect and Serve one another.
July 1, 2021
Dandelion Days
A recent pop-up article on my phone intrigued me. In their travels abroad, Singapore tourists often encounter bright-yellow, whimsical dandelions for the first time. Returning home, a number of these tourists will search the Internet for dandelion seeds they can purchase to plant in their own gardens. Depending on who is looking at it, a dandelion is a beautiful wildflower with wonderful medicinal properties or a nuisance weed that needs to be eliminated.

I remember as a child I delighted in picking dandelions, blowing their dried heads full of wispy seeds or waving their stems like magic wands in the breeze.  I also remember as a child in Florida being tasked with helping my mom keep her flower beds free of weeds. I frequently had to dig out lantana and large white and pink periwinkles. These were considered fast-growing weeds that could easily overtake a garden. The first time I saw these for sale in a garden shop I was incredulous. People were buying weeds!  Even more ironic is that now, years later, I am the one buying lantana to plant in my garden.

Your perspective and environment can determine whether something is a thing of value or not. If you have the desire and the room to grow them, a garden of wildflowers can definitely be a garden of beauty. 

Like these wildflowers, our challenges in life can be embraced as potential creators of beauty in our hearts or bitterly rejected as painful and unwanted. Changing the circumstance may not be an option but changing our perspective on the circumstance is always an option. Sometimes I need help to do this.

When our son was in his early twenties, we received a phone call from him. Jeremy was living in Oregon and was calling to tell us that he and his girlfriend had just had a baby. Although we had talked to him several times in the previous months, we had no idea that there was even a pregnancy.  What a shocking bombshell! Hurt that he had kept this from us and reeling with this new reality, I cried out to God and said, “I know this baby girl is a gift from You, but I sure don’t like the way You wrapped it!” I asked God to heal my heart, bring good out of this situation and show me how I could love and support my son, his girlfriend and his new daughter, Chloe.

I embraced my “dandelion” and made immediate plans to fly out to Oregon to meet our first granddaughter. I am so very thankful I did. That little girl was used by God to change my son as he wholeheartedly committed himself to his new role as a father. In the process, he became a hard-working, loving and faithful husband and father. Chloe is a source of joy to us. By changing my perspective on my dandelion, far-reaching seeds of love and hope were released into the present and the future. 

Do you have a dandelion in your life? Ask God to change your perspective and your heart so you can see it as an opportunity for beauty and growth. 


Like the hymn writer, I cry out to You Lord, “Be thou my vision!” Let me see the current challenges in my life in light of Your eternal purposes. Use the dandelions in my life to spread seeds of love, kindness, hope and joy. In the Name of Jesus, I pray.

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