On the stage right side of the porch, from the spare group of lilies, is a very tall single Lilly blossom. There will perhaps come out one or two more in the next couple of days. The stage left side, the thicker side, produces many more blossoms. Each side has its own personality.
Plants have only soil, water, air, sun and temperature that determine their health and fate. We have all those things plus human interaction, mobility, speech, guidance, and a personality unique to each of us. After some early training we can direct our own paths through life. We have a large measure of control of how we react to the circumstances of life: whether war or peace, whether solitude or crowds, whether orderliness or riot, whether laughter or weeping, whether satisfaction or depression.
We can know love and obey God, or we can hate and ignore him. We have choices in all these things.
