Keep going keep growing. know what soil you're in.

Hello there.
How are you?
I hope that you're having a nice time while on holiday.

I have a friend Joy, who is my Timaru Mum, and she sent me a letter this morning.
We right maybe every fortnight, and I email, text in between times.

I told her I want to do an organic gardening course, though SIT.
I have just found out that I can have my course material fees waved, through a special friend.
So that's really awesome.

I think of my girls, Talato, and now Grace.
I pray for them and I love my girls.
I pray their lives are blessed, through the support of tearfund.

And the Lord gave me a dream about my girls last night, each of them were dressed in colourful clothes, and Grace was playing with her dolls.

I love my girls so much.

I thanked God, for giving me that dream.

They are alive and well, happy and free of disease.

But I digress.

My post is about, what soil, we're in, and for us to grow.

My friend Joy did a horticulture course, and posted down, some notes so see if they will be helpful for my course.

And it got me thinking about, life.

We can't always be in the same ground, all the time.

We need space, to grow our roots, and flower.

If a bush is going well it's often down to the soil, weather it is self draining good soil or boggy clay.

Self draining soil, lets all the nutrients in the ground, and gets deep down into the plant.
In clay soil, you have to do alot of prep work to get the soil to take the water.

And it's a bit like learning something new, first you start in small steps, then you get more confident in other things, and then that crosses over into your own life

We can often be like the clay, only trusting ourselves so much, then all the goodness sits on top of the soil and never really reaches the good ground beneath the tree where it needs to grow.

And we need to do prep work to get the nutrients into the soil.
It might be organic matter, compost, seaweed, sheep pellets, whatever we do to break up the clay.

And over time we water the ground and the nutrients goes into the plant and we get growth.

In this interesting time, when we're face with uncertainty we can feel like a tree growing in clay.

We are limited in what we produce.

Because we don't trust ourselves all that much, so we close up.

So with in mind, how do we open up for the water to come down and keep us hydrated.

We have to stop being negative,
Being around negative people will stunt our growth, and it will make us diseased and lacking in good fruit.

This might mean a walk around the park, taking time to love yourself.
And remember you can't change that person, but you can change the way we think about them.

And bless them with acts of kindness, pulling together and blessing them.

Number 2.

Do something creative, it might not be perfect, but it can be you.
And it can be growing a new garden, or making a new friend.
Or supporting someone in need that really needs it. this is your true self.

Being creative is blessing others, so instead of being fustrated, with one particular thing, do something that is helpful for others.

3. Don't give up too soon.

It might not be perfect, but you can be the person that Christ has made you.
Give up and throwing in the towel only does one thing.

It give the enemy room to move in, fast, and we begin to believe the lies.
 about us, and others, the gossip and everything else that goes with it.

Don't believe that this is it, that's it's only only going to get worse before it gets better.

That is wrong, not only is it wrong, it stunts our growth, and in our our brains, science has proven that if we believe wrongs things in our heads, we grow thorns. what I mean about this is, that good thoughts, grow like trees in our brains, and any negative talk, thorns grow.

We need to stop all negative talk about ourselves, or others, because they hear what we're saying, and we are setting up thorns in their heads.

Only be blessed, and use words for building each other up.

Jesus is our rescue story.

So check what soil you're in today.

And write that letter, to those people, or email, let us throw off everthing that hinders us. and stops us from growing.

Letters are important, it says in the bible that news from a distant land, is like honey to the soul.

So write one today, that you will sow good seed into good soil.

My girls love letters from me, because it's my way of connecting to them, and letters are good because you can go back, and re read them in hard times.

It's time to be a Mary, not a Martha.

It's time to act and be the person we're growing to be
Chloe