Growth

I was lying down thinking. Through these 30 years, I've really had some good times, bad times, rough times, fun times, and so on. As I thought about these things, I thought about a beautiful flower, my favorite are daisies... any kind of daisies... anyway... these flowers go through a lot to be beautiful. They are put in darkness as seeds and into the dirtiest of things... dirt. To make them grow, they need to be watered and waited on. Some times people put fertilizer on them to help them grow... and some times those fertilizers are those stinky things from animals or leftover foods... none the less those nasty things help them grow to be those beautiful flowers. Rain, which is so good for them, also could make them fall for a few hours because of the intense beating it gets from it. But again, those are things that make a beautiful flower...

So as I was thinking, I thought of all the stinky fertilizers and hard rain that has been in life. Yes they feel rough, stinky, hard and downright unfair, but the thing is, all those things have made me into who I am. I could understand and feel more for the people going through similar things, have grace for people in similar circumstances...

Sometimes I wish that God could just make me into this beautiful creature without all those stinky hard things, but then I feel like that beauty will not last long. If things were done the easy way, then how quickly will it fade. So I choose to praise God in the times of struggle and I choose to endure through these tough times because I know in the end the beauty will last forever.

This doesn't just go for flowers, but a lot of beautiful things in life have to experience the same thing... like pearls. I like pearls too. :)

It's so easy to say, but hard to do... the Praising God in the midst of trials... Yet following Christ is walking through that narrow road, hard and sometimes lonely... So I will choose to love and praise my Father.