I went out to water the garden today and noticed a couple of weeds growing up through the crushed granite. They were just behind the containers where I had planted some of our favorite tomato varieties. Absentmindedly, I bent down to grasp the stem where it met the rock and then I stopped. The plant was NOT a weed but a tomato plant. In fact, as I stood up, I realized that there were two tomato plants growing up through the stone. Paying attention now, I looked around and there was a third tomato plant growing up through the rock. How in the world did that happen? I laughed aloud as I wondered how those seeds had found a foothold in the soil beneath the crushed granite and how it was that they were growing bigger and stronger than the plants in the containers!!
In some ways, the lives of people mimic what is going on with the stone and those little tomato plants. When do we grow the most? When do we become the strongest? We become stronger only when we go through adversity. When the world of hard knocks comes around, we learn new skills and/or strengthen those we already have. We push through, pick ourselves up, straighten our backs, lift our chins and step out to continue on for another day. When the world treats us less than well and we come out successfully on the other side, we have overcome!
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“…but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. ” Romans 5: 3,4
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