Finding Less of Me

People are a lot like plants. Sometimes we are getting too much sun, or maybe not enough.... being under watered or underfed... maybe even just being neglected. But there is nothing so far gone, that God cannot bring it back to its full potential of beauty. I recently had a mint plant that was looking rather rough. It was beautiful over the summer, full luscious green leaves, just overflowing from its pot... but, as plants usually go for me, eventually life got busy, and my mint plant wasn’t a priority. It’s leaves started to crinkle from dryness, the once beautiful full branches we’re becoming bare.  When I finally noticed what I had done, I put my google search to use about how to revive it.  Did you know you have to remove everything that’s already dead? New life can’t grow when the decaying lies around it.. Which made me start thinking, you think God is ever just waiting for us to realize that we have to remove the ugly, sinful, bad attitude, wrong crowd, stuff out of...

Have you ever been called by God to do something at in inconvenient time? I have... and I think it's time I admit a few things to you... It's been laid on my heart lately to help others, in any way possible. The problem with that is, I make excuses to not answer these calls from God. Maybe one of my furry friends needs to go to the vet that Saturday and that means I am going to miss volunteering, or maybe I have a ton of housework to do at home, or maybe I just want to veg out and binge watch a favorite on netflix... do you feel me? Can I just, for one minute, be completely transparent with you? When God calls me to do things, at an inconvenient time, sometimes I get annoyed and completely miss that God is calling me to do His work. In life, its easy to miss your calling when it means... stopping your work to pray for someone, or helping a friend out, after work, when you've already showered, put on your pj's, and just sat down to eat dinner. Or maybe it's even ...