What's your posture?

What’s your posture. The position you hold?

When the wind and waves blow firm and strong do your feet stay steady? Do they waver? 

Where do your roots fasten to? Have you ever thought about this?

It’s it interesting that things beneath the surface matter. 

We live in a day and age where the outer, upper above the ground, appearance is what matters. What people see is continually a concern for us.

I’ll be honest I struggle BIG TIME with perfection.

But what if we lived without that worry. Without the worry of the physical appearance, but that what we are personally disciplining ourselves to do and grow in, is what matters. And not only that, but that we would talk about it. Being vulnerable about the struggles of growth beneath the surface. 

I’m curious what that would look like.

I don’t know about you but I’m in constant battle with the flesh to continue the path of growth. To remind my soul that being pressed down deep into the soil of life, that the darkness, that the moisture is actually making us into something that grows with roots. That there's hope in the darkest of places, those places that feel hopeless they are only temporary.

Because eventually we will bust out of the darkest moments of life and sprout into a beautiful creative expression— of the Gardener who planted you in that darkness because He knew you’d grow and bloom in a beauty all your own. He’s been watering and tending to your needs all along.

All you've got to do is find good soil to grow roots in and let Jesus do that rest.

P S A L M  5 2 : 8 - 9

But I am like an olive tree, thriving in the house of God.

    I will always trust in God’s unfailing love.

I will praise you forever, O God,

    for what you have done.

I will trust in your good name

    in the presence of your faithful people.