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Deborah Rutherford's avatar

Donna, this is so beautiful and intriguing. I love how Jesus is in all creation and me. They know!!!! Amd the east all so fascinating. We had four Marathon sunflowers this season and they are now hanging up to dry out for harvesting.

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Donna Bucher's avatar

Deborah, thank you so much for your kind words! I was amazed at how God created sunflowers, and just how encouraging they are to me! I'm so glad you enjoyed this article!

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Claire Adderholt's avatar

"look to the East, for our Bridegroom cometh" I ADORE THAT

also, so many faith-giving and incredible facts about sunflowers

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Donna Bucher's avatar

Thank you, Claire! I praise God you found my article as interesting as I did, and another testimony of God's greatness!

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Linda Stoll's avatar

a few years ago, my granddaughters did a photo shoot in a huge field of sunflowers. i've been a fan ever since. thanks for enlarging my borders with your wise words. God is quite a Creator, isn't He!

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Donna Bucher's avatar

We have several large fields of sunflowers here, Linda, and the first time I wondered through totally amazed me! God speaks so clearly through His creation!

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nancyaruegg.com's avatar

Thank you for this intriguing post about sunflowers, Donna. How amazing that they track east to west even in a controlled environment without sunlight. As for the Fibonacci phenomenon, I wrote about that myself on my blog, a few years back. Fascinating--and demonstrative of God's mathematical genius, found here and there throughout creation! (In case you're curious, here's a link! https://nancyaruegg.com/2017/06/22/the-language-of-the-universe/ )

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Donna Bucher's avatar

Nancy, Thank you for reading, and for the link to your blog post! Equally fascinating!

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nancyaruegg.com's avatar

Thank you for visiting and kindly leaving a comment, Donna.

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Sakari's avatar

Your mom sounds like a wonderful and courageous person.

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Donna Bucher's avatar

I like to remember her that way, she went to be with Jesus in January 2023.

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Sakari's avatar

Wow fascinating! Sunflowers are particularly meaningful to me because a couple years ago, my grandma gave me sunflowers for my birthday (Oct 23) and said, “I’m giving you sunflowers because this is the flower that best describes you.” I love that they point eastward towards the sun at maturity and remind us to await the SON. If I ever get married, this just confirms I should use sunflowers as my wedding flower

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Donna Bucher's avatar

Beautiful thoughts! Sunflowers are meaningful to me too, as they were my Mother's favorite flower. She battled mental illness all of her life, in the form of depression, but truly battled to remain hopeful in the darkness. I love that they face eastward too, awaiting the "Son", and remind me one day I will not only see Jesus, but be reunited with my mom.

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