God has chosen all of creation as his own. Not because humanity is perfect rather
because we are his children and God believes in what we can yet become.
Our way to becoming more than we are is set out
in Colossian 3:12-14 “… cloth yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility,
gentleness and patience. Bear with each
other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against
someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave
you. And over all these virtues put on
love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
After service this morning I went out into our garden to pick
rhubarb and in gardens not yet weeded burst forth the most amazing yellow
flowers. They were beautiful and also
defined by horticultural societies as invasive weeds. As I stood admiring the colour, how delicate
the flowers were this morning words of hope and love came back to me.
We try to design our lives, homes, gardens, communities, what is good and what is bad and we do this from our very small and imperfect view of the
world.
Where God loves it all and over
looks the imperfections in favour of what creation - what we can yet become.
I will leave our yellow weeds as a reminder that I am not the
creator and I am in the process of becoming all that I can be.
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| 2017 Watching the pollinators move about our flower beds their sweet buzz everywhere. |
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| 2016 Listen to music our house wren was making as she guarded her nest |
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| 2015 sitting on the lawn pulling weeds when I notice this robin following in my wake pulling up the insects revealed. |
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| 2014 At a pot luck dinner enjoying fresh strawberries |
Grandma Snyder
©twosnydergirls 2018
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