Monday, May 16 is our 19th wedding anniversary. For those of you doing the math, I was 20 years old when I got married. We are so blessed to have Mother's Day, our anniversary, bring home our Nazeret, and Father's day all within a month!
When we got married, and I was just a baby, I discovered the Calla Lily. It is such an elegant flower. This has been our flower and a symbol of our love for the past 19 years. A couple of days ago I discovered a beautiful "touch point" from God. It turns out that the national flower of Ethiopia is...the Calla Lily. All species of this flower are endemic to Africa. Just another beautiful way that God has slowly woven a love for Ethiopia into our hearts throughout our lives.
If you will indulge me, I wanted to share some of my most meaningful pictures of the Calla Lily.
This picture was taken the year that our anniversary collided with the loss of our Nandad. Notice the Calla Lilies in my bouquet in our wedding picture. (Yes, Michael had hair.)
This beauty was growing in the Garden Tomb when I visited Jerusalem.
Michela took this picture at the Transition Home the day we met Nazeret.
This was taken at one of the orphanages that we visited while in Ethiopia. It makes me think of a line from a Disney movie that goes something like this: "The flower that blooms in adversity is beautiful indeed."
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