My Cactus Knew
January 5th, 2009. Filed under: Monday's Musings.I have a holiday cactus. I thought it was a Thanksgiving cactus, but I couldn’t remember if the one with the pointy leaves was a Thanksgiving or Christmas cactus. One has the rounded tips and the other, pointy. Mine has the pointy. Anyway, they look pointy to me. This first picture is a Thanksgiving cactus. The second is a Christmas cactus.
The leaves on mine look like the first picture, but at Thanksgiving, the cactus was just sitting there in the pot, minding it’s own business and doing nothing. Nada. Zilch. Then before I left for the mainland right after Christmas, that little sucker decided to put out some buds. When I returned home last night, there it sat in all it’s blooming glory. Beautiful fushia blooms all over the place. Does that mean that my little holiday cactus decided to start a new beginning as a New Year’s cactus? That just goes to show you that when you make up your mind to start a beautiful new beginning, it’s all waiting right there for you. Make up your mind that this will be a year of new beginnings and go for it. You can do! Even if everyone just ignores you and you have to go it alone. I put that pitiful little cactus outside several months ago, because I was busy killing it with all my fussing about with it. I finally decided to give it to God and let Him take over that little plant’s life. Now it’s strong, healthy and flourishing. All without the help of me or anyone else.
I think that I will take a lesson from this beautiful little plant and let God take on all the stuff I forget to give Him. I spend too much of my time doing it on “my own.” Even when I know I can’t. I have one major goal (and a lot of minor ones) for this new year. It’s to let go and let God have control. I want to remember that “In 2009, it’s not mine.” It’s God’s.
January 13th, 2009 at 23:14
Gorgeous!!!! Mine still hasn’t bloomed, I’m jealous.
January 14th, 2009 at 10:42
Maybe your cactus hasn’t decided yet on what holiday it wants to represent.
December 29th, 2009 at 05:22
[…] went through this last year. That’s when I figured out that my plant had a desire to be a New Year’s cactus instead of Thanksgiving or Christmas. So today, I remembered to go out back and check on […]