Cerveza n lime

Last year I bought a plant called Cerveza n Lime.  If you brush your hands through it, it releases a wonderful lime fragrance.  It is one of my favorite plants. This summer it was out on the deck, so it dealt with more extreme issues of weather than it had over the winter on my dining room table.  Storms shook the leaves free. The sun and the heat did their work as well.  

On this plant, each stem holds many leaves.  As the leaves are bumped or blown off, there is a opening in the stem.  Maybe it is a bit of a plant wound, one could say.  At first, there was simply a small open area in the stem, but then something happened.  As that little openning closes, it produced another leaf.  Although this time, it isn't one leaf, rather about 6 in the shape of a small daisy-like flower. Every time a leaf fell off, an opening was created bringing a place for several new leaves in come into existence.

I was thinking how it seems to be in life.  We experience difficult weather conditions like sun and heat - things we did not expect: job loss, relationship rifts, deaths of those close. We can experience seasons of barrenness with places where we have been wounded seeming more plentiful than the green, lush areas.  Yet with time and intention, those wounded areas can be transformed into lush greenness.
  
This summer my plant had several nearly bare stems, but now is completely covered with little blossoms of leaves. It seems that in there some where is a picture of redemption. Healing can come to our our lives, producing far more gifts than had been there before we lost the leaves.