Regularly. It’ll do your heart and home a world of good!

They’re only $3.74 at Aldi’s – and they’re worth every single penny. I promise.

A bouquet may last only a week, but I’d say it’s effects are everlasting. A flower reminds us of something greater that this world cannot satisfy – the ultimate beauty of heaven.

Every bouquet is different. Sometimes I look around a room in my home and realize I haven’t used or appreciated the things I’ve worked hard to furnish it with – from the glass bottles on top of my bookshelf in the corner to the budded wreath on the wall. But a fresh bouquet of flowers is always the first thing to catch my eye! When it finds that posy, it will rest – even for a few seconds, oblivious to the rest of the room’s plastic and plaster. It’s just the kind of rest I need in this world of distractions and stimulations!

A fresh bouquet of flowers serves not just one, but anyone else who lives or visits your home. And that aroma! I like to think of it as the “soundtrack” to our life; that unheard compliment to the one’s day.

But Mary, you say…

That’s what husbands and boyfriends are for! Buying me flowers is their job.

Uh huh. For some reason, society has deemed flowers and chocolate the official treats for women to enjoy from the men that love them. While that’s all well and good – it doesn’t have to stop or begin there. Why do you think men buy women flowers in the first place? Maybe its because they represent that which is beautiful, resilient, and living in their own hearts. Let the men in your life shower you with flowers because they associate them with you!

Let them see your bouquet – and raise you one. 🙂

I don’t have a man in my life. Buying myself flowers is lame.

Do you enjoy a beautiful sunset? Stand in awe at the ocean’s edge? Do you make a nice dinner every once and awhile? Of course you do! I don’t know about you, but while enjoying these things with someone else is always preferred, I don’t need that someone else in order to enjoy them. Let’s be good in our own skin and surround ourselves with an extra sunbeam for a change.

Buy yourself that bouquet. You’ll be that much more content with who you are and where you’re going.

And when someday that man does give you flowers – you’ll remember back to the ones you enjoyed and take even more joy from those given from the heart of someone who thinks you deserve them.

More than anything else, that bouquet you buy or are given, is an invitation to see something deeper and further still:

“When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.” – St Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Why are you waiting for? Let’s go find a bouquet!