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See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction... life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.     Deuteronomy 30:15-19

Imperceptibly Turning

Clearing out clutter and sprucing up called for something new from the nearby garden shop. I picked a hardy houseplant and placed the pot outside where you could see it from the kitchen. It looked perfect out there.  

One day I looked out the window and the plant was all bent over and facing the other way.  It had gotten plenty of water, what happened?  It looked so pretty before.

Seemed like that plant changed direction overnight.  Of course, it didn’t happen that fast. It was like time lapse photography.  Each day, the little leaves turned their faces towards the sun.  Imperceptibly, the plant was turning. Ever so slowly.  And over a period of time, the difference was very noticeable.

Plants don’t have a choice. They just do what they do.  We, however, have a choice.  We can choose what we look at, what we think about, what we absorb.

In our day-to-day lives, all the seemingly insignificant decisions we make, matter. As we turn in the direction of our focus, little by little, the choices pile up tp create a definite, noticeable change.  

The writer of Philippians, Paul, says: “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.”

How beautiful we are when we make choices like this......no matter where we are planted.

-sally kennedy