Welcome to a bonus episode, a beautiful bonus episode of the 413 podcast where practical encouragement and biblical wisdom set you up to live

the I can life because you can do all things through Christ who gives you strength.

Now, settle in for a special episode about blue flower moments.

Here's your host and my soul sister, Jennifer Rothschild.

Oh my goodness, my people, you're about to love this. So we've been talking about the

Heaven Bible study around here, and a blue flower is very significant. And so you're about to

learn why. So if we're new friends, I'm Jennifer, and I you're about to learn why so if we're new friends I'm

Jennifer and I really do want to share with you some blue flower moments okay so

as I mentioned in my new heaven Bible study I tried it to depict like the longing

for heaven the egg for our forever, using the motif of a blue flower.

So, and here's why.

I first learned about it from none other than, you're going to be so surprised, Casey.

C.S. Lewis.

What?

If we've been friends for a long, you know I love C.S. Lewis. And so in his book, surprised by joy,

he called himself a votary of the blue flower. Well, that was so unique to me. So first of all,

a votary, it's just an old-fashioned way of saying a devotee, like someone who's devoted to.

So I was like, okay, C.S. Lewis is devoted to the blue flower, and I am devoted to C.S. Lewis.

Okay, so what in the world does that mean?

All right.

Well, in German romantic literature, the blue flower was used to represent or to capture longing, transcendence, beauty, the ache for the eternal.

Like it's this almost this longing that is unmet yet that not being met is still very satisfying.

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