Blood

A beautiful golden flower called the aconite blooms in early spring in England. Sometimes the meadows are carpeted with them. There is a legend that these flowers grew in England only where Roman soldiers had shed their blood. It's just a legend, of course, But it is no legend that there is power in the blood. It is no legend that, in a sense, the flowers of forgiveness and grace and mercy bloom where the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has been shed.