HERE I GROW AGAIN
By Bob Perks
I sat on the hill in my yard a while and wondered about the day. I wanted to
know what tomorrow will bring and what to do with yesterday. I have thought
these thoughts a million times and each time just gave in.
But I discovered today that the answer lies not what I’m without, but what’s
within. This grand revelation came from watching my dog play with a blade of
grass. We’ve had some heavy rains the last few days and I haven’t had the
opportunity to just sit outside. But today the clouds gave way to the sun
and at least for a few minutes I was able to catch up on my thinking. It was
when I looked down at a blade of grass that I discovered the answers I had
been searching for all this time. You see, no matter how many times I cut
that grass it always grows back. It thrives if there’s too much rain and
survives if there is a drought. You can walk on it and it springs back up.
You can dig it up and throw it somewhere else and it will grow right where
it lies.
If a blade of grass can do all that, why are we so fragile? You would think
that God would have made the human being a lot more durable than that. Why
is it that after a few times that life cuts you down, you decide not to grow
any more? Why is it that when we hit the dry times in our lives we curl up
and die in spirit? Why is it that when the big guys walk all over you, you
don’t spring back up to where you rightfully belong? Why is it that when
life uproots your plans you can never see the potential for new growth
wherever you are? Do you think for a moment that God created a blade of
grass to be more than you?
Just like the answers were in that blade of grass, so are the answers within
you. The blade of grass was God’s way of telling me to “bloom where you are
planted.” Here, I grow again!
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