(c) By: Sharon Slaton Howell
"How do you grow such flowers?"
My neighbors would ask.
I used to say, "feeding and watering?"
Lest they think I'm a bit odd.
But now I come right out and say,
"I talk to them,
Tell them how pretty they look,
How well they're doing."
After all, don't you like a little praise
Every now and then?
But in the final analysis,
It is truly feeling that
It is God Himself who is
The substance of a flower.*
*Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
p. 508, by Mary Baker Eddy
