The Inspirational Moment Behind “Don't Let Anything Slow You Down”

The proper names for plants can be cumbersome, difficult to pronounce, and almost impossible to remember, but this one is quite funny. Cirsium vulgare ... it sounds like “vulgar cussing” and it just might be the name given by a botanist, out in a field wearing a white lab coat, who learned to identify bull thistle the time he pulled it up with his bare hands.

In life, we all have to deal with a little unwanted cirsium vulgare, don’t we? People losing their cool around us, unable to control their temper or their tongue, or both.

Which is why I couldn’t resist capturing the moment this Roadrunner posed for me in front of some bull thistle, as if he was undaunted by it, simply taking it in stride. The illustration seemed particularly poignant and prickly.

Life has its thorns,
but like a Roadrunner,
don’t let a little cirsium vulgare
(bull thistle) slow you down.

“Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain.”
(1Corinthians 15:58 NKJV/srb)

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