Recently a friend paid me a compliment - that I'd been growing so fast lately that she wondered if I was using Miracle Grow.
It made me laugh - and it made me think.
The product Miracle-Gro® is plant food - pure and simple - and if you use it in the soil your plants grow in, it will make them grow faster and better than without plant food. It's remarkable the difference it makes.
I remember a part of a conversation that I had with my counselor along about the end of the one-year process that changed my life so radically. He also remarked about how much progress I'd made since I first sat in his office, a broken person whose life was falling down around her ears. He rejoiced that it had taken as little time as it had.
I asked him why he thought that was, why it had taken such a short time according to him.
His answer sort of surprised me - not because I didn't think it was true, but more because I didn't expect it to come from someone who made his living from working with people in crisis. I guess I had thought he might be jaded, I'm not sure.
I can't remember his exact words, so I'll paraphrase: "I've been doing this for a long time. And I'll tell you that in the vast majority of cases, people who have God in their lives and form a real, daily relationship with Him, tend to heal more quickly because they realize that He's the one doing the healing, changing them as they get to know Him. They just get to come along for the ride." He went on to say that yes, it does take hard work, but the rate of change is so much faster in people who recognize and submit to the role that God plays in transforming them. "Some of the most difficult cases I have, are people who refuse to allow God into the picture. It's sad, really. As hard as it is to go through this process even with God in one's life, it's many times harder without Him."
It's like a relationship with God that's daily, alive, and honest is the Miracle-Gro® of the soul.
And it IS a miracle. Everything ABOUT it is miraculous. Just the ability to smile when all I knew before were tears and frowns - that's simply amazing. The reactions I have now that I never dreamed possible, reactions to things that would have driven me around the bend in my "before" life - are completely the opposite.
Letting go when I once hung on for dear life shows that trust has replaced fear. Huge.
Speaking out and setting boundaries, when I once would clam up and shove things down inside of me - this is confidence replacing dread. Wow.
Trying new things and admitting when I make mistakes (and I really DO!!) then moving on with lessons learned - instead of wilting into the background out of perfectionism and fear of failure - displays freedom rather than bondage.
These Miraculous Transformations are sponsored by the all-powerful, all-knowing, ever-present One. And HE is my Miracle Grow.
It made me laugh - and it made me think.
The product Miracle-Gro® is plant food - pure and simple - and if you use it in the soil your plants grow in, it will make them grow faster and better than without plant food. It's remarkable the difference it makes.
I remember a part of a conversation that I had with my counselor along about the end of the one-year process that changed my life so radically. He also remarked about how much progress I'd made since I first sat in his office, a broken person whose life was falling down around her ears. He rejoiced that it had taken as little time as it had.
I asked him why he thought that was, why it had taken such a short time according to him.
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His answer sort of surprised me - not because I didn't think it was true, but more because I didn't expect it to come from someone who made his living from working with people in crisis. I guess I had thought he might be jaded, I'm not sure.
I can't remember his exact words, so I'll paraphrase: "I've been doing this for a long time. And I'll tell you that in the vast majority of cases, people who have God in their lives and form a real, daily relationship with Him, tend to heal more quickly because they realize that He's the one doing the healing, changing them as they get to know Him. They just get to come along for the ride." He went on to say that yes, it does take hard work, but the rate of change is so much faster in people who recognize and submit to the role that God plays in transforming them. "Some of the most difficult cases I have, are people who refuse to allow God into the picture. It's sad, really. As hard as it is to go through this process even with God in one's life, it's many times harder without Him."
It's like a relationship with God that's daily, alive, and honest is the Miracle-Gro® of the soul.
And it IS a miracle. Everything ABOUT it is miraculous. Just the ability to smile when all I knew before were tears and frowns - that's simply amazing. The reactions I have now that I never dreamed possible, reactions to things that would have driven me around the bend in my "before" life - are completely the opposite.
Letting go when I once hung on for dear life shows that trust has replaced fear. Huge.
Speaking out and setting boundaries, when I once would clam up and shove things down inside of me - this is confidence replacing dread. Wow.
Trying new things and admitting when I make mistakes (and I really DO!!) then moving on with lessons learned - instead of wilting into the background out of perfectionism and fear of failure - displays freedom rather than bondage.
These Miraculous Transformations are sponsored by the all-powerful, all-knowing, ever-present One. And HE is my Miracle Grow.
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