Today is the national day of prayer. And so we give your prayers a blessing as BIG as the nation. As you pray: May your spirit soar to elevated heights, your words reach other-worldly borders, and your heart fill with love so grand, that it expands to the great beyond of God's glorious universe.

The bud

stands for all things,

even for those things that don't flower,

for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;

though sometimes it is necessary

to reteach a thing its loveliness,

to put a hand on the brow

of the flower

and retell it in words and in touch

it is lovely

until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.