June 19, 2013 - Watermelon Lessons Again?

Good morning, I am hopeful today will be filled with sunshine as my happy self needs some light. My old, unhappy self would have made brownies or gotten a candy bar, but the new me simply needs some sunshine and a walk through the flowers. I did however get a quick run to the rose bed last night only to smile and shake my head at those silly, watermelon plants. Some of you have been following my posts for a couple of years and know that I am addicted to watermelon. In fact, last season I planted seeds in the hope of feeding my addiction FREE of charge, but to no avail. If you remember from the blogs we hit several bumps. This year I turned the soil over where they were and started beautiful rose beds only to discover one side of the bed is growing watermelon vines. As I examined them last night, they are bountiful and hearty! I can only reason that the heavy rain this season has encouraged and nurtured them, as I did every "rain dance" known to mankind with no success last summer. But this year, they have taken off and are multiplying rapidly with strong tentacles reaching beyond their assigned container trying to find a place to ground themselves and fight for life. LOVE this! John 12:24 The Message (MSG) 24-25 “Listen carefully: Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of wheat. But if it is buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over. In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is destroys that life. But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you’ll have it forever, real and eternal. As I consider this passage this morning, I want each of us to remember, that our concept (seed) to be healthy must often endure hard seasons and dark soil. It happens. Perhaps you think being healthy is what you "should do," but dying to yourself and your way of thinking (this could be hard; the 4th of July is coming and I PLAN to eat what I want; I am not going to live the rest of my life on some strict diet!) is critical if you are planning to be successful. Our journey is not a seasonal fad following which we have plans to grab the next candy bar as soon as swimsuit weather is over. That will simply send a WRONG tether into WRONG soil. Read the passage again........if the seed falls into the ground and DIES (becomes dead to the world's way of thinking) it can THEN sprout (burst open from its hard shell) and reproduce many times over. YEA! Can you give a quick look at your health and determine if your old mindset about health is dead and your new, changed determination to FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE has gone deep into the soil of your heart, sprouted, is emerging and tethering to good soil? As it does, your family, friends, and co-workers are given the opportunity to celebrate life with you and PERHAPS decide to follow your journey. That's the perpetuation of LIFE. It's so cool to see the watermelon plants fight for life without my nurturing and cheerleading this time. Everyone of us has to decide we choose death to our wrong thinking FOREVER in order to LIVE in our healthy life FOREVER! I choose life! Have an amazing Wednesday. PK