In fact, in our subtropical neighborhood of San Carlos, California, about 10 miles east of downtown San Diego, one home's canna lilies produced—multiplied—so prodigiously that the owners had to uproot several feet of productive rhizomes just so their garden wouldn't be all cannas.

They placed them on the parkway across the street at an entrance to a hiking trail where anyone could see them and wrote a sign that said, "Help yourself" or "Free," I forget which.

I saw them while walking the dog and after getting home, I drove back and picked up the ones that were left.

We planted them last winter next to a fence that we wanted to cover, and this spring we watched them stretch for the sky, turn green, bud, blossom and entirely fill our faces with red-flecked bright yellow flowers and a few "hazard" orange blooms.

They gave away those roots—how very generous, I thought.

Then I had another thought: God designed those magnificent colors in filigreed petals to—to do what?

They didn't evolve for any practical purpose. They didn't evolve at all. They were created to show and establish, beyond any human doubt, that God creates beautifully and shares that creation with us!

My neighbor was generous, but God is much more abundantly generous! Everything good that we can marvel at and enjoy comes from God—with love.

Let's thank and acknowledge Him.