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Oh, this blogging road is so "rocky". Have you noticed...? I'm having a hard time keeping up. Thank you, so much, for sticking around and keeping interest. I greatly appreciate you - my dear readers. You're comments mean the world to me.
The last two posts were about the word (my word for the new year) - GROW or GROWTH and about seeds. How they are sown...or broadcasted. If you remember me using that word...? I said we'd stay on this gardening themed topic... for a bit. So, here goes.
First off, you can hardly have growth if you don't have seeds and you certainly can't have that if you don't have soil. Right? Soil isn't conditional Meaning, like, you have to have soil.
YOU NEED SOIL...to make things grow.
YOU NEED SOIL...to make things grow.
But... the question or thought we want to consider today is, what is the condition of our soul soil?
You can have any kind of soil... but if it isn't good or quality or healthy... what good is it going to do you? Descriptions of some not-so-good soil are: Hard, stony or "pale and shallow"...
You can have any kind of soil... but if it isn't good or quality or healthy... what good is it going to do you? Descriptions of some not-so-good soil are: Hard, stony or "pale and shallow"...
I know I've talked a lot of gardening and the like - over the course of my blogging "years". (Wow!! I've been "blogging" - albeit on an off - for a really long time). In fact, I just took a few moments to reread some of my old gardening themed posts. I was tempted to just share one of those... and not go with anything new - but that felt like a cop out to me - so you've got this.
So, we understand, the condition of our soil is so very important. And, yet here is something that we often forget about. Earthworms.
They are the lowliest of the low. Do you agree??
And, yet they're crucial to our earth's ecosystem. Without them...our soil wouldn't be much to talk about. You can tell - just by digging around - how healthy your soil is if you see evidence of worms in your soil. What comes to mind when I think of healthy soil.... is rich, dark, wet - smells earthy - loose and movable.
A sweet, dear friend recently was speaking of this very thing... and I like how she stated this... and with her permission...I'm paraphrasing! :)
Something so small and insignificant,such as an earthworm, can leave behind the greatest impact of fertilizing our earth's soil in preparation for planting. He works hard behind the scenes going unnoticed at large. Yet he's faithful. Day and and day out... Because of this... it is this worm's faithfulness that leads to an abundant harvest.
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Sometimes hard things that come in our lives are really crucial for the growth that we need in our lives. Situations that "worm" their way in and through our lives are only preparing us for deeper growth. Let's not wish it all away. Let's embrace and allow the "yuckies" of life to be a blessing!!!
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I admit, I don't like the hard things of life. HOWEVER, I have come to embrace their faithfulness as part of my internal growth. When I think of the soil of my soul... I really do want it to be pliable and fertile.
Right now, I'm going through something very personal. It has a lot to do with contentment. I'm grateful for what God has blessed me with, don't get me wrong - but, down deep I'll feel the "worm squirm" of wanting to complain. I feel "claustrophobic". I feel cheated. "This isn't the way it was supposed to be or go"... and, if I allow those "weeds" to thrive... they'll overgrow and overtake and there will be a hardening of heart. See how all of this effects the condition of our soul soil?
This is real. And, challenging!! But, because I'm recognizing it, in me...I see it as an opportunity to pull those things from my heart and mind and replace it with a positive mindset and a grateful heart!!
I can't do it by myself. I need the Gardner of my soul!!!
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
- Psalm 51:10 KJV
So, we understand, the condition of our soil is so very important. And, yet here is something that we often forget about. Earthworms.
They are the lowliest of the low. Do you agree??
And, yet they're crucial to our earth's ecosystem. Without them...our soil wouldn't be much to talk about. You can tell - just by digging around - how healthy your soil is if you see evidence of worms in your soil. What comes to mind when I think of healthy soil.... is rich, dark, wet - smells earthy - loose and movable.
A sweet, dear friend recently was speaking of this very thing... and I like how she stated this... and with her permission...I'm paraphrasing! :)
Something so small and insignificant,such as an earthworm, can leave behind the greatest impact of fertilizing our earth's soil in preparation for planting. He works hard behind the scenes going unnoticed at large. Yet he's faithful. Day and and day out... Because of this... it is this worm's faithfulness that leads to an abundant harvest.
~~
Sometimes hard things that come in our lives are really crucial for the growth that we need in our lives. Situations that "worm" their way in and through our lives are only preparing us for deeper growth. Let's not wish it all away. Let's embrace and allow the "yuckies" of life to be a blessing!!!
~~~
I admit, I don't like the hard things of life. HOWEVER, I have come to embrace their faithfulness as part of my internal growth. When I think of the soil of my soul... I really do want it to be pliable and fertile.
Right now, I'm going through something very personal. It has a lot to do with contentment. I'm grateful for what God has blessed me with, don't get me wrong - but, down deep I'll feel the "worm squirm" of wanting to complain. I feel "claustrophobic". I feel cheated. "This isn't the way it was supposed to be or go"... and, if I allow those "weeds" to thrive... they'll overgrow and overtake and there will be a hardening of heart. See how all of this effects the condition of our soul soil?
This is real. And, challenging!! But, because I'm recognizing it, in me...I see it as an opportunity to pull those things from my heart and mind and replace it with a positive mindset and a grateful heart!!
I can't do it by myself. I need the Gardner of my soul!!!
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
- Psalm 51:10 KJV
