Breakfast For Your Soul

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Good Morning Beloved,

It’s amazing how God uses the most common everyday occurrences to teach spiritual truths.  He knows us.  He knows how we process information and what the best method will be for us to grasp what He is telling us.  No one in my family has anything resembling a “green thumb” when it comes to flowers and plants.  When we moved into our house nearly 20 years ago, we inherited 2 rose bushes and a holly bush.  We have found them to be not only beautiful, but stubbornly resilient, with a determination to survive.  There have been times in our busy lives, when those bushes have been totally neglected by us.  I noticed that there were these beautiful white ‘flowers’ growing around them.  A friend, who I believe can make anything grow, informed me that those were weeds.  I was shocked, they were so pretty.  Not only were they weeds, but the little leeches, had the nerve to try to choke the life out of our brave little trees.  The rose and holly bushes just grew taller and taller.  One day I decided, the weeds had to go and got rid of them.  The thing about weeds…. they are also stubborn, resilient and have a strong determination to survive.  It is a battle.  As of this morning… the weeds are gone, but I know that I am going to have to stay vigilant……  get the picture?  Weeds are going to spring up in our lives.  Things that might look pretty, even harmless, but their goal is to sap the life and strength out of us.  To lead us away from the path that God has for us.  A path that will lead us to our destiny and purpose.  For instance, as a child you have a great desire to become a teacher.  You study a teacher you really admire and work hard.  Then someone comes along and tells you that you should ‘aim’ higher.  Why not become a doctor or a lawyer… they make more money.  So you shift.  Ever stop to think that in God’s plan for your life, you may become an OK doctor or lawyer.. but you would have made an OUTSTANDING teacher, that could have impacted many young minds, because that is what was in your heart.  I met a lawyer once who had desired to be a teacher.  He graduated from not one, but two Ivy league schools and became the first black attorney at this particular firm I worked for.  My daughter interviewed him for her 6th grade vocation paper.  He told her of his previous desire to teach.  I always knew that about him.  What you are purposed to do … you will do… naturally, with little or no thought.  He is a natural-born teacher.  An absolutely brilliant and patient man, with the ability to simplifiy the most complex questions, without making the person asking the question feel stupid.  That was his gift…. and his calling.  Shortly after I left the firm, he resigned and moved to Chicago, where he took a position as a professor in a prestigious college, met and married his wife (also a professor).. and they are living happily ever after (LOL!)… The folks around here say ‘do you’… that has a lot of truth embedded in it, once you strip away arrogance or selfishness. Seriously study where you are.  Are you where you are because someone else decided this path for you?  Do you believe you are out of place?  Do you feel like you’re wearing ‘someone else’s life’, and it’s choking the life out of you, like a suit two sizes too small?  It’s only too late when you have breathed your last. What was deemed to be a proclamation of destruction for Pharaoh, I believe to be a prophetic word of hope to the believer, “ ….Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show My power in thee, and that My name might be declared throughout all the earth (Romans 9:17).“ 

U Blessed Favored One

Have A Fabulous Day!

Regina

Cartoonist’s Comment:

The power of God can remove any obstacle that is preventing you from getting to where God wants you to be. Our faith allows God to release His power in our lives, to remove the mountains in our way.