Resilience is our ability to weather difficult situations and come through the other side, eventually finding our way back to wholeness and health. When I saw how this petunia had grown, unbeknownst to me, amid our patio stones, it seemed the perfect image of resilience: persevering despite the odds, and all the more beautiful because of it. It is a reminder that even in the unlikeliest of places and in the most difficult circumstances, life and hope remain.
