Originally published Wednesday, 30 April 2014.
The Stone Collective is a community making much of Jesus as we create art, photography, prose, poems or music that commemorate the wonderful things God does in our life. Based on the passage in 1 Samuel 7:12-14, each month we will collect Ebenezer Stones as a regular practice in the art of worship via our creativity.
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Sarah's April Stone
Every spring I obsess over the wisteria. Did you know that wisteria is kind of like a weed? I didn't grow up in an area that had wisteria so this new found "weed" of mine is fasinating. Isn't a weed ugly? That's what we perceive weeds to be, correct?
The beautiful wistera "weed" that grows all over the place here captivates my emotions and reminds me that even my weeds can be beautiful. Even the not-so-pretty things in my heart and mind and soul can be beautiful...
if I surrender it to the ever restorative, ever redemptive Jesus whom I serve.
For the Lord makes all things new, all things beautiful when we hand over to Him our weeds. God wastes nothing. He uses our good, bad, ugly and...weedy... if you will...for His good purpose. All of my past junk serves as valuable life lessons and growth points should I choose to accept forgiveness, change my ways and hand it over to Him. Even better, all of my past junk--my weeds--can encourage others towards Jesus when I share out vulnerability. Do we choose to surrender our weeds and live in JOY or do we choose to wallow or complain and live in guilt? I choose joy. How about you?
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