Redbud seed pods

Redbud seed pods persist through the winter and hang around through the spring. Few people say, "Wow, look at those beautiful brown seed pods!", so I'm giving them some highly deserved attention. Not as flashy as the buds, but they carry on the species.

Sometimes the flashiest people don't last long, and those least likely to make you say "Wow!" are actually the most important.

1 Corinthians 12:22-25 . . .
"On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other."