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Sunshine for LightHouse Women & Children’s Center

For the women at LightHouse Women & Children’s Center, we prepared a different flower arrangement for each woman, each in its own glass vase with a blush ribbon. Sometimes sunshine arrives by the bucketful. 💛

A carful of color

It started on Friday, when Ashton drove out to a local florist and found the whole stand set up under a shade tree: five-gallon buckets packed with zinnias in every color they come in, sunflowers turning their faces up, hydrangeas, dahlias, snapdragons, daisies, feathery celosia, and armful after armful of greenery. She went out for a carful. She came home with a car that could not have fit one more stem.

One vase at a time

Then came the best kind of afternoon. Every bunch got taken apart and rebuilt into its own special arrangement, one for each woman at LightHouse, and no two of them turned out the same. Every single one got its own glass vase and a blush ribbon tied at the neck.

A Saturday flower delivery

First thing Saturday morning, we drove the flowers over to bring a little color to the weekend. We lined the vases up along the lobby wall, and for a few minutes that hallway looked like a flower shop had quietly moved in overnight. The staff at LightHouse are the kind of people who make a hard day softer, and their positive spirits made a world of difference.

To the women at LightHouse: God loves you, He sees you, and He has good plans in store for your life. We hope that every time you walked past those flowers this weekend, it felt like a small piece of proof.

Sunshine comes in a lot of different forms. This weekend, it came in a vase. 💛

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