| | As cliche as it sounds, there is actually a lot that melting trees can teach us about God testing us. Okay, maybe it's just me, but it was so refreshing to walk among the silver trees through the quad and just listen to the cracking sound of branches shedding their winter skins and coming back to life.
I have been going through a hard time lately as many of you might know. I may put on a brave face, but it's not always easy letting go of dreams and aspirations more than two years in the making. I found myself in my own winter skin... cold and bending ready to snap in half, not knowing what was going to happen next. Even if I do get rid of this ice all around me, I am still bent and awkward and I wonder how long it will take for me to stand upright.
Then I realized that of all the branches being broken off are the branches that are really the weakest. God's living water froze around me and it was hard, but the weight of it broke off what didn't need to be there and tested what should stay and what should go. What I am left with may not be much, but it's a start. I look forward to feeling the breeze and the warm sun. I anticipate the water trickling down from the melting ice and feeding the roots giving me the strength to grow something new. I know even though I can't see it that Spring is coming because it comes every year without fail and when it does I will bloom again.
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