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A little over a year ago I headed to Hobby Lobby one evening. I had gotten some glass pumpkins and fake leaves for some Fall decorations for the rectory, but the mantles needed something – vases with bouquets with some fall colors.
I would love to see the security camera footage of me that evening. Up and down the three aisles of fake flowers, with multiple side trips to the two rows in a nearby section, and occasional stops at end caps. Back and forth I went, up and down and back again. While I didn’t look at a clock, I had to have been there for a good 90 minutes trying to make up my mind of flower and color choices. And at that point I just had raw materials – I still had to put the four bouquets together!
Flower ministry is not a ministry that I am called to. It doesn’t help that I get fake flowers precisely because I am allergic to the real ones which are all we use at church. I have been known to rearrange pots, or have ideas on general arrangements, but I am not the one to put the bouquets together in the first place. Now, after almost two and a half hours, I think my arrangements came out pretty okay, but it’s not my calling or gift.
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