The fact that the plants will move towards the light is absolutely amazing to me and I realized that my little plants were trying to teach me a lesson. Most of those plants in that flower bed are permanently bent toward that light. They spend the entire day reaching for the sun.
I started to wonder what I would look like if I constantly kept my focus on the light. What would I look like if I always focused on the good and always recognized my blessings? And then, of course, my mind went to what I would look like if I spent all. day. long. reaching as far as I could to get closer to THE Son. 
Not so ironically as I was doing some reading this morning I came across some words of wisdom from Dallin H. Oaks. He referred to the scripture in Matthew 6:22.
"The light of the body is the eye:
if therefore thine eye be single,
thy whole body shall be full of light."
He said, "In His sermon to multitudes... the Savior taught that mortal bodies can be full of light or full of darkness. We, of course, want to be filled with light, and our Savior taught us how we can make this happen. We should listen to messages about the truths of eternity. He used the example of our eye, through which we take light into our bodies. If our 'eye be single'—in other words, if we are concentrating on receiving eternal light and understanding—He explained, 'thy whole body shall be full of light'".
There is a lot of dark in the world. Sometimes we spend long periods of time in the shade so to speak. Things look bleak. It is dark. But WOW we can learn something from those intelligent little flowers. We can still reach... AND STILL GROW! Maybe even grow a little taller because we had to reach a little farther and work a little harder. I hope I can learn from my intelligent little flowers.
- Jessica
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