This is a photo of a Scarlet Pimpernel, a low growing, annual plant, with brightly colored flowers, though most often scarlet. But notice the brilliant yellow anthers! We see its stem and leaves in the foreground, a great, dried, fallen leaf behind, and some soft, brighter green moss. What a lovely combination of colors and textures. But we must look carefully to discover it in the first place. Walking by quickly, we would likely miss seeing it, or might even regrettably step on it.
St. Paul writes in his letter to the Philippians: My brothers and sisters I need only add this. If you believe in goodness and if you value the approval of God, fix your minds on whatever is true and honourable and just and pure and lovely and admirable." (4:8)
These days, how important is it that St. Paul begins by proposing/asking, "If you believe in goodness..."
