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You Choose Where To Put Down Your Roots

You may have noticed that when in the presence of certain people, you thrive. Something about their nature allows you to flourish. They draw out your best qualities and nurture your growth.

They promote your potential.

It helps immeasurably to get to know God one-on-one, so that you recognize those people who are extensions of Him, and who will offer an atmosphere of righteous support and wise direction for your steady growth and betterment.

The more you know God, the easier it will be to recognize those people who are not reinforcing what He is growing within you.

They are not drawing out your best qualities and nurturing their growth. Instead, they cause your best self to retreat. Those people stymie your gifts, your personality, and your well-intended aspirations and values.

They quench your potential.

Difficult people will always be in your midst, but you can control where you put down your roots. You can interact with most people without having to embed yourself in the same ground in which they are rooted. 

Mingle, converse, disregard, listen, learn, laugh and enjoy when you cross paths … but only plant yourself in ground where righteousness is nurtured.

There may be seasons in your life when nobody provides fertile ground for your growth. Still, you are not without opportunity to bloom — put down your roots in the love of God, and in the careful guidance of His Holy Spirit. 

With Him, you are guaranteed luxuriant development of all that is good within you.

Video credit goes to the film company, MUVI, with Youtube license, muviag.

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Beyond Here

I have a long-time obsession with clear horizons, (especially when looking up at one from a valley), and long, straight, clear paths. I have a ridiculous amount of photos of those two things. Today I walked a new-to-me trail, and was treated with both in one place.

I have never been able to understand exactly why and how those two sights draw me to them so strongly, only that they represent an ideal. Not a dangling-carrot kind of ideal that leads to nothing, like some offers do. It has nothing to do with those hopes we chase which never materialize. Those kinds of false hopes make us die a slow death inside.

The clear horizons and straight paths I stand staring at are different. They represent the possible. Each leads to something not yet seen or experienced, on terrain that is unobstructed if I will trust enough to walk it. They hint of a destination that is extraordinary and sublime.

The clear horizon and path are about something beyond the here and now — something more — that would seem impossible if it was said with words, so instead they tell their message in their very existence:

BEYOND HERE IS POSSIBLE.

Just the sight of them always finds hope somewhere in my soul, even if hope has been dormant a long time, and brings it to life again. They help me to keep going, climbing that hill to the distinct junction where heaven meets earth, and walking that straight, clear path to something new and splendid ahead.

One step at a time. With hope and trust. To a thing that is beyond what we could imagine right now. To the thing that is possible.