Look at the picture above. What do you see? Roots, right? Lots and lots of roots ...heading in all sorts of directions and crossing all kinds of paths.
Well, much like these roots, I feel like my life heads in several different directions, and I become s t r e t c h e d. Sometimes I can even start heading places I never intended to be or even wanted to be.
There are times like this week when I feel like I can't do anything right and I need to finish this task and this task then this task and so on... I can become frustrated with all the things I do wrong, instead of focusing on the things I do right.
During one of these such "LD rants" this week, Dominick stopped me and said, "Woah, babe, just stop. Stop focusing on all the things you've done wrong in the past, and focus on one thing today that you can change. What's the one thing today that you can tackle?"
And then I realized what the problem was. It was me. I was focused on what could I do, how could I change?
Roots are infinitely important. They're what ground us. They run deep within a foundation to promise security of life. But roots can become destructive.
When roots stray too far from their foundation, they can disrupt the life of things around them. They can even ultimately cause their own distruction.
So it is with my life. When I stray too far from my foundation in Christ, the roots I have in Him become less about Him and more about my own mission, a mission that can become destructive to me and those around me.
Today, I think I'll choose the less destructive path. What about you?
