Even though it is not much, I'll take it! What a nice bright color to make these days seem less oppressive.
I've often wondered why this plant is called a Christmas Cactus. Mine has never bloomed at Christmas--Thanksgiving, Halloween, Easter and other days in between. This one may have been Groundhog Day! It seems to be several plants in one. Different parts bloom at different times and one part blooms a very pale pinkish-white. Plants are amazing.
Day and night are thine,
heaven and earth declare thy glory;
but I, a creature of thy power and bounty,
have sinned against thee
by resisting the dictates of conscience,
the demands of thy law,
the calls of thy gospel;
yet I live under the dispensation of a given hope....
Render my obedience to thy will holy, natural, and delightful.
Rectify all my principles by clear, consistent,
and influential views of divine truth.
Let me never undervalue or neglect any part of thy revealed will.
May I duly regard the doctrine and practice of the gospel,
prizing its commands as well as its promises.
--a portion of, To Be Fit For God, from the Valley of Vision
