The greatest stress always happens just before the greatest growth. The longer the incubation, the greater the growth. Desire is the sun, the soil, the water.
Think about a seed...lying there on the ground wanting more than anything to be an entire tree. Imagine the patience and the resolve and the amazing amount of energy it takes to become a tree. OK, so I know that your thinking that it doesn't have any of the distractions we have...but actually it probably has all of them otherwise every seed would turn into a tree..but they don't do they?...
But just before that first sprout comes bursting out of that pod
I can't imagine the faith, the pain, and far more importantly...the will.
This is the ride. We call it good and bad (according to it's effect on us-and we can't even agree on that) but it's all just experience. And experience
is what we bring to every new situation...putting us on a perspective perch that's just a little bit higher than the last one..giving us a few more options than we had before the last experience...a few more things that we know, that we appreciate, that we can count on....
It's amazing how stress can bring about the greatest release of anxiety once we choose to rely on The One who can only give that peace. I know from experience, but it's our choice whether we accept it or not!
ReplyDeleteMy ride is great and I wouldn't change it for a minute.. thank you God for the faith, the pain and the will.
Thanks Mark for the comments. You made me stop and think!
Thanks Joy!
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