Sunflower
(Helianthus) Sunflowers are very sunny. Their faces look like the sun, and their buds spend their entire day turning their faces toward the light of the sun (heliotropism). It is an unforgettable sight to see an entire field of sunflowers all stretching and reaching toward the sun, all their faces turned in the same direction. Seek it out if you haven’t had the opportunity to see such a sight. Sunflowers have an optimistic ability to find the light in every situation and look in that direction. (Can't we all use a dose of that energy from time to time -- a reminder!) In every moment in our lives, we live in choice. We have so many options it is mind boggling. One fundamental choice we have is that of seeing the good in a situation or the bad. Sunflowers choose to follow the light. Sunflowers do not deny the existence of the darkness, the unwanted, undesired things in life, but they choose not to BE the darkness and to know that the darkness cannot mar our essence unless we choose to let it.
Sunflower affirmation:
I choose to live my life
more like the sunflower,
CHOOSING to find the
light in a situation and
not choosing to dwell
in the darkness.
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