Determination

A few days ago, as I headed out to Webster, I saw a lone sunflower growing in the middle of the highway. There didn't appear to be any dirt along the concrete highway divider where it stood looking into the sunshine, but there it was none the less. I wondered not only how it came to grow there but at the determination it spoke to me. When things seem impossible, when there isn't much to go on, when no one stands beside me, will I still be able to stand? Will I bring a smile to the face of someone passing by? Can I continue on never knowing that I was an encouragement to someone else along the way and do what God calls me to? I couldn't take a picture but I can see that flower in my mind's eye, standing there, a bright spot along an otherwise drab stretch of highway.