The owners of this house before us had a strange style for the backyard. In one place, they had what appears to be a pet cemetery surrounded by day lilies. In other random locations were old tires with bulbs planted inside. One of those held a huge cluster of daffodils. We've since dug up the lilies and the daffodils and moved them to more convenient locations. But the daffodils apparently didn't want to be moved completely. Because in the picture above you can see they bloomed there again this year, despite us thinking we had them all dug up. They were rooted deeply. They dug in and decided enough of a bulb was left that they could grow and thrive once more.
I want faith like that. I want a faith planted so deeply in my heart and soul that even if some of it gets uprooted or cut in half or flooded or whatever, there's still enough in there that another green shoot will come up in the Spring. You know what I mean? Looking back on my faith journey, I think about how strong I though I was before we started trying to grow our family. Then, we found out we had a journey full of infertility treatments ahead of us. When that journey got interrupted and messed up, too, the whole world seemed to be shaken and never to be whole again. My faith could have completely disappeared. But it was planted deeply enough to withstand the dark hours we lived through. And now it's even stronger. That's not to say it won't be shaken and tested again. But I sort of feel like every time we go through something, we have two choices. We can let the bad times and hard times destroy our faith, chopping it to pieces that won't ever grow again. Or we can let it make our faith stronger, like strong winds do for a tree--encouraging those roots to dig in deeper and farther so the wind can't knock it over. I'd much rather do the latter. What about you? How rooted is your faith? What do you do to make sure it stays that way?
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