The LIFE in the PIT

Thoughts, Prayers and Words of Encouragement: The past month has been so interesting. My reading time is very limited since my eye surgery...hahaha which was to help me see...that is another blog!! Anyhow this theme of choosing life, where is life, what is life..appears to be a theme that God is deepening in the roots of my life. Although not a new concept....the roots seem to be digging down to new waters....

So yesterday I cut a peach for lunch. Now first of all that is unusual because I do not like or normally eat peaches. When I was in the store, this beautiful peach caught my eye..as I picked it up, the woman beside me said, "These peaches are no good, they are so hard they will never ripen." So not being "peach educated" I picked it up and brought it home....Kinda like what Jesus did with me!

So I placed the peach in the sun to make it soft...kinda like what Jesus did with me....some real HOT weather to soften me up....after a couple of days, it appeared to be ready to cut...just like JESUS did with me!! Opened my heart at just the right time :)

SO I cut the peach in half...and there it was the PIT...so here is where my lesson really began...the flesh of the peach was so appealing....very brilliant color, juicy but not mushy, firm yet not hard, smelling sweet yet not sickening, and I thought wow this is a wonderful peach...then God started the lesson....You see the flesh of the peach, no matter how wonderful could not create life...it would be satisfying but then the end of life...no procreation in the flesh...but the PIT, grooved with the pains of growth, protected and hard to crack had died to give life to the fruit, yet when buried would grow again and be a tree yeilding lots of new peaches and fruit that would multiply again and again.

There have been so many PITS in my life...events, circumstances, relationships...(I could go on and on) that I would have much rather had a beautiful sweet fleshy peach as the result...and yet it was a PIT, remained a PIT and will be a PIT....but God has used those PITS to bring life, not only to me but so many others...kinda like the tree that yeilds all the peaches...each time I share my PIT, someone else gets life and mine deepens....

So today Father, I thank you for the PITS...so often I wanted them changed into appealing fleshy peaches. I ask Your forgiveness and give you praise that You know where real life is and how to bring it forth...You are so amazing and wonderful. Life is not always where I think it is but always where You bring it forth....love you di