It's time to wake up and face the morning! Let's make ourselves gifts to all the people we meet today. I just poured a cup of Door County Chocolate Cherry Coffee for myself. I wish we could be sharing this pot of java together this morning.
When I was a kid a black iron fence separated our back yard from the neighbors yard. The fence was lined with a wild yellow rose bushes that often was used as a backstop for errant balls that were headed over the fence and into the neighbor's yard. Our dad used to work at trimming those bushes from spreading and he would cut them back to almost nothing. But they would come back stronger than ever and bloom, making a yellow wall for our homemade stadium.
The point for today is this. Be resilient. When life knocks you down bounce back and bloom again. Those little roses are still blooming at the old house where I grew up. They survived football games, baseball games, snowball fights, and a guy who just wanted them to look neat and orderly. Don't let life rob you of being all that you can be.
Isaiah 40:31 New King James Version (NKJV)
31 But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
When we wait on the Lord and trust Him to renew our strength, we can not only bounce back, we know we can make it and not fail. Like the rose that was trimmed and left to vanish, we can endure and carry on. I left that home in 1994 and last year when I drove by those roses had spread everywhere.
God bless,
Marty
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