Green Leaves

Thoughts, Prayers and Words of Encouragement: Saturday afternoon, walking through the woods, birds singing, fish jumping and the leaves a dull shade of red and orange. I have never been a real lover of fall. Seems to be just to be a flash then the long dark winter comes. Sunday AM as I was reading and preparing to preach at Pastor Manyama's I read Isaiah 58 and Psalm 1......Well watered gardens and trees planted by streams whose leaves never wither....

WELL..it is hard to be a GREEN LEAF....think about it....never allowing circumstances, people, comments, rejections, abuse, abandonments, financial struggles, betrayal....to change who I am and who I represent. There have been many times in my life when I was the RED Rage of fall, or the BROWN complacency of fall, or the Orange of discontent....and yet over and over God continues to talk about the well watered, leaves not withering....

Then I think of how hard it really is to be a green leaf tree..pushing the roots of my relationship with Christ through all the rocks of life to get to the deep water...sometimes it is easier to change colors and fall off the tree.

Finally again it all comes back to choosing LIFE....the garden of LIFE always gives me two choices, knowledge of the situation and circumstances whether good or bad...or CHOOSING HIM>..LIFE....so today Lord, I ask forgiveness for all the times I have chosen to be a falling leaf instead of green.....please give me the grace, love and mercy to CHOOSE LIFE>>>CHOOSE YOU always and above ALL...love you di