All the flowers are dead

All the Flowers are dead by Telle Wild Rose (shauntell rohner)

A small bud tries to blossom into something new

But a man stomps down and crushes the dream

Lower than the dirt underneath his boot, She is you

She lets out a fearful scream

Why does it have to be this way?

The season is warming up welcoming dying hope before it even starts,

When will she finally be ok?

When she passed she left a trail of broken hearts

Water, earth, and light, are needed to flourish

Deprived of all, now theres rot underneath the root,

The sun has fallen, the stars weep, and she wishes there was more than this

Looking around the bed of soil, she realizes sadly something is afoot,

A facade to fool the masses, surely

looking with a careful eye, theres beauty on the outside, yellows, blues and red

But the temperate of the air is somber and winter has come far too early,

Because as she looks deeper she discovers, all the flowers are dead.

Reflection: what areas of your life are dead or rotten? what in your life needs to be revived?

scripture meditation: Ezekiel 37:1-14

King James Version

37 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.

4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.

8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

13 And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.

Encouragement: the Lord will give you beauty for ashes, for He is the God of the living, not the dead. He came to give you life more abundantly whereas the thief came only to steal, kill and destroy. but we are more than conquerers in Him. - Telle Wild Rose