A stirring perspective on transitioning into a new life situation.
Guest post by Summer R.
“The process of being planted:
Tilling the soil:
stirring up holy discontent, a wrestling of self into a place of obedience and willingness to be broken, to be used.
Uprooting:
ripping out things that bind us to the land- becoming free, through pain and loss. A reminder, this is not our home.
The seed:
the call of obedience, the name of a far-away people group, a hope based on things unseen. Promises of the Word.
The planting:
digging in, with purposeful intentionality, the death of self, hidden in the darkness of soil, unknown, unseen.
Growth:
stretching up, slowly expanding, making new discoveries and allowing challenges to shape us, to change us.
Tendrils:
Connections into the community, strangers become friends, sounds become words, cultural understanding, adaptations.
Rootedness:
the Source of nutrients feeding, strengthening, providing for us. Same deep, unshakable God, new community, new belonging.
Fruitfulness:
simple faithfulness, buds of meaningful interactions, the promises of God- abiding will produce good, multiplying fruit.
A year holds four seasons, each unique;
colors, feelings, beauties, change.
God, faithful in every season,
sovereignly unchangeable,
present in changes.
Faithful.
God’s great hand, intricately involved
Loving, caring, gracious, kind.
Creation within the process.
Impossible without Him…
with Him, amazing.
Fruitful.”
God uproots us and then roots us. He unmakes us then remakes us! (Jeremiah 31:28)