Humbly serving all with their beauty, flowers say more to us about God than anything else. Each one brings a message that the Heavenly Father is right here. - Paramhansa Yogananda

About The Trinity Bee & Me

The Trinity Bee is a chronicle of my call to ministry and to inspiring the spirit to feel more free. It starts where any busy bee would start -- with flowers. Gathering wildflowers has always been the thing I do to clear my mind and recenter the heart. Making your own wildflower arrangements puts the soul in touch with its own natural artful wisdom. Each bouquet has a little story of how it came to be and what the look and feel evoke for me. Each flower has a story, a healing property, and often a Scriptural connection to the Medicine of the Gospel. Different than buying an arrangement in a store, the art of making your own wildflower bouquets is part meditation, part spiritual artistry, part soul retrieval. This simple practice connects the soul more deeply to place, season, and time's past and to the present moment. In the spirit of Alice Walker's collection of poems The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers, The Trinity Bee is the place to inspire others to reconnect with their own divinity.

Color Me Honesty

This stately purple bloom is called Honesty. I never knew there was a flower with this name but it's a good thing it exists. I found this flower wild growing in a patch of soil in the urban jungle of Philadelphia. This royal hue and speaks to the eternal quest to stay true.

It is paired here with a lovely white Verbena which has long been associated with supernatural forces, making this duo a potent pairing indeed.  In early Christianity,  folk legends recorded that Verbena was used to staunch Jesus' wounds after his removal from the cross. It was consequently called "holy herb" and in Wales, "Devil's bane". Use this flower when you are needing help coming clean and remaining true to you! 

 In the Victorian language of flowers, verbena held the dual meaning of enchantment and sensibility. Verbena was also called " Isis' tears" in ancient Egypt, making this flower a wonderful antidote to feeling disconnected from the natural world. 





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