You are not obliged to be beautiful You don't have to shine. Blooming will happen when it happens. If you can be still for a moment you might notice that the roots that feed you are still reaching silently through the dark.
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How shall the mighty river reach the tiny seed? See it rise silently to the sun's yearning, sail from a winter's cloud flake after silent flake piling up layer upon layer until the thaw of spring to meet the seedling's need.
Make tender, Lord, my heart: release through gentleness Thine own tremendous power hid in the snowflake's art.