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.

The Bohemian Bouquet

Flower Arranging on a whim is one of my favourite (or favorite, depending on your side o' the pond!) things to do.  Just keep your eyes peeled for flowers that can be easily picked that appear to belong to no one.  Wildflower bouquets can brighten up any day and are so fun to put together, just using what you find on your walk and following the natural connection the flowers have with each other. They will tell you where they should be placed. Use the lines of nature to arrange flowers at different heights that create an arrangement that preserves the wild beauty look and feel -- not too scripted or perfect. The beauty of arranging flowers is that they can call to mind the feeling of a life lived with divine inspiration, not perfection or too many rules. They remind one of the whimsical wild nature of a spirit free to be.

This one I call The Bohemian Bouquet as it's lines are reminiscent of a dancing gypsy spirit. It calls together Daffodils, Dogwoods, Cherry Blossoms and  twigs artfully placed for texture and context which also give a nod to the simplicity, strength and meditative beauty of trees. A simple stone to the right of the vase says BREATHE, ever the important reminder.

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide -- no escape from reality!

This bouquet also calls to mind the Bohemian Rhapsody!

The highest purpose of poetry is to teach us to love.- Pucinni, La Boheme 




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