Today is Monday, April 26th, 2010; Karen's Korner #1806
Last week I went to my friend's home to get some of her freshly dug perenniel flowers. Miriam needed her garden thinned; I wanted some of the plants she was transplanting.
Several spades full of about six different varieties of flowers made their way back to our farm home and to my existing flower beds. I had been given instructions, "Divide this one into two pieces. And that one into four."
Some were easier to untangle their root systems than others; some were down right impossible to pull apart. In fact, one clump, I couldn't pull apart successfully. I planted the whole 'group' together.
As I tried to untangle them, I thought of our relationships: with our families, our friends, our church group, with God.
Are we so intertwined that if some power or force (in the flowers' case: ME) tries to pull us apart, it isn't possible because our roots are so steadfast, entangled, deep? As we grow and grow together, let's hope and pray that is the case in all situations.
Ephesians 3:17b says, “May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love.”
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