Earlier this week, I went out to my garden to pick tomatoes 🍅 and got a bonus reminder-lesson along with them.
You see, we have this one “defective” tomato plant with ripe tomatoes that are smaller than my three-year old’s fingernails, it’s so weird.
I have been waiting patiently up to this point, thinking they may start getting more fruit-full, but they haven’t, and now that plant is trying to take over the whole garden!
The other morning I had to pull it back because it was choking out my good plants, but I think I’m going to have to cut that plant out entirely.
As I was considering this God said to me:
“Remember, Daylene, don’t let the little (unimportant) stuff choke out the big (eternally important) stuff.”
It was a needed reminder, as I have found myself getting caught up in little details of projects so much that I was feeling “rotten” and less-than-full because that little stuff was beginning to choke out some of my most fruitful time with Him.
Later that day, He repeated this same theme through a friend as she shared what He had been speaking to her. ❤️
I love how He does that!
Encourages lovingly. Practically.
Repeats Himself.
Repeats Himself through a friend so we understand it’s not just us that struggles with these things.
It’s so common!
We aren’t alone.
And we are better together, reminding one another-
It’s ok to pull up “vines” sometimes –
things that may be full of fruit, even,
but not the BEST kind,
not the FILLING kind,
Sometimes we MUST prune away the little stuff in our lives- maybe even some stuff that feels big and necessary in this moment- so that the e.t.e.r.n.a.l fruits in our lives {the Word, the time with HIM, the fellowshipping with Him in the center} has space in the garden of our hearts to grow and prosper.
And when we do,
we may feel less full in quantity
{#s of things to go on our resumes, perhaps,
or dollars in the bank}
but MORE full in quality!
And what we DO have
{especially that relationship with Him}-
b.e.c.a.u.s.e we have made room-
we are more able to feel thankFULL for!
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