Our family is in the midst of little league soccer season. My youngest son is playing and his enthusiasm is contagious. He is pretty good at the sport, but what makes it so great is that he loves it! He counts the days until the next game or practice. He loves his coach and teammates. He has moved up an age level this year and the players are working more like team, passing to each other and watching out for each other during play. During the last game, my son scored two goals, they were the only goals of the game. In today's game the team scored eight goals. My son came up afterwards to me and said, "I didn't score today, but I blocked". What a powerful truth those words can hold. In life, sometimes we score, sometimes we block. Sometimes we do great things, we excel, we achieve, we meet our goal - we score! There are also times we see the needs of others, sometimes they are sad or hurting, we block their hits. We look out for them so they can score. We...
That is so true...life is a garden...It doesn't happen over night and takes time to grow, be nurtured to reach it's full potential.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, we learn trust, commitment, patience and faith...wonderful additions to the garden.
God bless you!
Beautiful image for these words.
ReplyDeleteSo very true! Thank you for the beautiful reminder. ;o)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful verse and picture, it truly brightened my day!
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very beautiful! what a precious reminder!
ReplyDeleteLove it. You found a really nice one.
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