Beautiful lavender with a spikey head of thorns. A team of nature lovers was dispatched to rid the California state park of this intruder, considered to be "invasive," not native. They chopped, ripped, and hacked. The next season the thistle came back in flush because the work meant for destroying had instead spread the seeds much more by dislodging them.
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Joseph said to his brothers,
"You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives."
Genesis 50:20
