{"id":5013,"date":"2016-04-28T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2016-04-27T12:34:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T19:34:52","slug":"the-daffodil-principle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/the-daffodil-principle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DAFFODIL PRINCIPLE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psalm 126:5-6<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThose who sow in tears shall reap in joy. He who continually goes forth weeping, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some years ago I sent out a Daily-E-Votional highlighting the Daffodil Principle. Since then there have been requests to repeat it, which I will do today, but leaving out a great deal of the back story that led up to it.<\/p>\n

One day a certain woman came upon a magnificent field of daffodils of every shape, size, and color. The beauty of it was breathtaking and almost too hard for her to take in. There was a small house nearby and next to the house was a poster that read:<\/p>\n

Answers to the Questions I Know you are asking.<\/strong>
\n50,000 bulbs, one at a time, by one woman.<\/em><\/strong>
\nTwo hands, two feet, and very little brain.<\/em><\/strong>
\nBegan in 1958.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

After the experience of witnessing such a sight, the woman wrote the following article:<\/p>\n

There it was, The Daffodil Principle. For me, that moment was a life-changing experience.\u00a0 I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun \u2012 one bulb at a time \u2012 to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountain top. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Still, just planting one bulb at a time, year after year, had changed the world.\u00a0 This unknown woman had forever changed the world in which she lived. She had created something of ineffable (indescribable) magnificence, beauty, and inspiration.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The principle her daffodil garden taught is one of the greatest principles of celebration. That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time \u2012 often just one baby-step at a time \u2012 and learning to love the doing, learning to use the accumulation of time.<\/p>\n

When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can accomplish magnificent things. We can change the world.<\/p>\n

It really does not take great intellect or strength \u2012 it is just planting the bulbs that God gives us, and keep on planting them.\u00a0 If I remember correctly, the original Daffodil Principle was my 431st Daily E-votional.\u00a0 To date, that number has grown to over 4,000! That leaves me with a lot of planting ahead. I just need to focus on what the Lord leads me to share and plant it!<\/p>\n

May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n

– – – Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psalm 126:5-6 \u201cThose who sow in tears shall reap in joy. He who continually goes forth weeping, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.\u201d Some years ago I sent out a Daily-E-Votional highlighting the Daffodil Principle. Since then there have been requests to repeat it, which I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}