Good morning y’all!
How are we all today? Did you say, “I love you” to your loved ones? If not, text them to let them know that you are thinking about them. Because life it too short, and July is almost done. Which also means Christmas is just a little bit closer.
Gosh, I had this idea for a mini reset ‘new years’ resolution – you know seeing we’re halfway through the year. A little re-cap. But sike, nope nothing really has changed. I planned for all these new and improved habits and leave the bad ones in the dirt. But, well let’s just say change or progress is slow and it takes time. And for one, right now it’s like moving at sloth speed. Am I where I thought I would be?…cough…cough… Nope. But hey noticing no change, is like progress right? A step in the right direction one could say.
Oh but I have to say, I have had this plant for some time in my place. It’s been living inside for a few months. And I love it. I kinda had love at first sight when I saw it in the shops. I might explain more later, but long story short – it was the only thing that caught my eye and it was all by its self. See, it had these amazing patterns in the leaves. But back to the point, it’s been growing strong for a while. But this week, leading up to this point I began taking more notice of the plant. Cuz I started seeing speckled white dots all over its leaves. It didn’t look as green as I recall. And this happened for a few days. It remained ongoing, and I kept thinking to myself, “it looks whiter than normal. But nah it’s fine.” I didn’t really think much more.
Until one morning, I don’t know what was different this time. But I walked and decided to take a closer look at its leaves. I inspected it! Oh… and let me tell you what I saw. It was so nasty. There was like this white fungus growing. Small layer but noticeable up close. Ofc I googled it. Since I never really took care of a plant before, I needed some guidance, cuz right now all seemed hopeless. And sure enough it was infected. Noooo.
*you all can cry along with me*
So I tried to see if it was possible to fix it. It said to make this solution with some baking soda, water and soap, to clean the plant with. Google first said to remove all the infected leaves. Though, at the state it was in, there’d be no leaves left on the poor thing. So, there’s no way I was gonna do that.
But luckily the solution did clean the white stuff off the leaves. Though funny thing was Google said that I should not wet the leaves. And that the leaves should remain dry. Because that’s how I think I caused this disease infection on my own plant. You see, leading up to this point there came a time when the leaves of my gorueguos plant was dusty and I heard its not good for it to breath. So, I did the best thing I knew – considering I have no duster, was to grab a damp towel to clean the leaves…but cuz the water remained and I probs over watered in this winter weather, that the cool inside of the house, made the white stuff grow.
So long story short. One, plants are not easier than animals – so I though. They require attention. And second, we cannot let things go under our radar, no matter the inconvenience it is to us or we think its not important.
For our lives as well. We should not think less of what’s actually bad (aka white on your plants leaves). It goes both ways. For instance, if we shrug say a sinful thought once and think its okay, then that thought will grow and eat us up. Not too mention next time we have this thought we will think that it is okay. Then we will grow complacent and leave (like the infected leaves) until it’s too late. Sin once and not recognise it as sin, the sin will grow bigger. And we’re still on the road to recovery for my plant. I will keep you posted. I haven’t hung in the towel.
But for my life and yourself also, how many times in a day do we shrug off the good thoughts that would lead to good actions and do the same for bad thoughts. We just count it as fine. Neither the good we dwell on or the bad to change.
You know even in the world, until something is completely ruined – marriages, career, car (cough cough) we do not act on it. But rather shrug off any small thing – mostly bad. Or has to be soooo GOOD that we hold onto it. Cuz in the end, negative things are more engrained in our brain than the positives. Like an amazing movie, motivational speech, influencer that catches our attention. But the things in the middle – the everyday – neither great or bad… It doesn’t catch our attention. So rather than bringing to our attention SOLELY when we are in NEED for God, both in the lows and highs, we NEED Him just as much in the in between. The everyday. The “today was good”. Why? Because He is good, today, yesterday and tomorrow. He never changes. Only our circumstance changes. But through it all, He is there and that is how we should plan our steps [Psalm 37:5-6].
Cause while it’s hard to balance life. Balance in general, is something we should strive towards. So we shouldn’t wait until the last drop or the penny to fall until we take action. Life is already unpredictable and messy. But with God as our centre, we can get through anything in life.
God, you amaze me!
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Psalm 37:5-6 NIV
Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him and he will do this:
He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,
your vindication like the noonday sun.
God who sees us.
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