I have just been round at the garden centre where they were selling off herbacious plants cheaply much to my delight, they had been shoved at the back because they look pretty rough and their places taken by the autumn flowering range.

 

I didn't care how they looked because, as any gardener knows , what counted was what was in the pot, that the roots were healthy, not how pretty they looked on the outside. This of course sounds very familiar, that although our world will often push aside the "not so pretty" people and worship the beautiful, to God it only matters what is inside. Those of us like myself who are perhaps not quite in" full blossom" anymore can take comfort.

 

"But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."

1 Samuel 16 vs 7