Spiritual Lessons Taken from Pansies Facing the Light

My wife and I have enjoyed a little grove of pansies in one of our flowerbeds. This spring they greeted everyone who came to the door with their very happy, colorful faces. They appeared to be intentionally facing the walkway into the house in a friendly way.

Truth be told, I believe they were facing that direction because that’s where they got the most light. Without any light, plants eventually die. So it makes sense that our pansy grove was programmed to face the light.

But that makes me think that sometimes pansies are more intelligent than humans. In last week’s article we read that Matth...