Dandelions are a product of their choice, winds, and persistance.
When I was a child I loved dandelions unconditionally. Over time in self interest becoming critical of them I worked to weed them out of my life, even developing what in reflection was a hateful worship. In time I resigned myself to accept their ubiquitous presence and ignored them as unimportant as long as they were reasonably under control. Now (by repentance, and forgiveness of myself and them), I can again fully love them and the conditions of the love are more fully formed with greater knowledge and wonder. They and I have more in common then difference.
Dare I say if you know a dandelion you know me, or if you know me, you know a dandelion?
By my choice I hardened my heart to beauty searching for answers anywhere else . . .
. . . And yet the more I thought about my spirituality profile the more I realized a truth of a dandelions simple beauty representing my spiritual path very well.
When a child I loved a spiritual connection to God unconditionally unchallenged by my experience, as an adult the desires of self, led to hardening of my heart with wars against the influence of the spirit, with eventual resignation and acceptance to a ubiquitous presence with unimportant responses by me. Now I fully love the spiritual presence with greater knowledge and wonder.
Did you know that every fiber of the dandelions crown of seeds is sensitive to the correct time to be lead by the winds?
Have you wondered how each of the seeds in the crown could be from cross pollination with any number of others or solely from the individual plant all mixed together and awaiting similar potential?
When each seed releases willingly or is forced by intense winds the story is spread into new lives subject to the environment they and the winds have chosen together.
Funny I spend so much time looking for the Kingdom, and deeply know I am always surrounded by it from within and without.