I have decided to try to become creative with my photography
by challenging myself to an "Alphabet Challenge."
I will try and make it through the alphabet taking pictures of things
that start with a letter. Today was the letter {A}.
I chose to take a picture of a stained glass window in the newly built
Gilbert, Arizona Temple. The window represents the agave plant.
The temple is filled with symbolism and one of the main reasons we go to the temple
is to be sealed together for a family, not just for this life, but for eternity.
From Wikipedia:
The agave plant (also named century plant) typically lives only 10 to 30 years.
It has a spreading rosette of gray-green leaves up to 6 feet long, each with a spiny margin and
heavy spike at the tip that can pierce to the bone.
When it flowers, the spike with a cyme of big yellow flowers may reach up to 26 feet in height.
It flowers only once at the end of its long life. The plant dies after flowering, but produces adventitious shoots from the base, which continue its growth.
I thought this symbolism was very interesting.
The most important mission in my life, is that of motherhood.
It is actually why I exist, much like that of the agave plant,
with a rosette of gray-green leaves (my children are my rosette),
each with spiny margins and heavy spikes at the tip that can pierce to the bone
(my children have pierce my heart to the bone at times in their lives).
After flowering (living a good and righteous life), produces
adventitious shoots(my testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ) from the base,
which continue its growth
(hopefully my testimony will anchor my family at the base through
generations into eternity).
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