A Sticky Situation

I spent the good part of my morning watering the yard with a high pressure nozzle. The pecan tree had been weeping sap and coated everything with stickiness. Left unattended and that stickiness will suffocate and shrivel our beautiful rose bushes and leaves a permanent residue upon everything else. I stood amidst the showers, watching the leaves turn a cleaner green and the roof water turned from brown to clear. A seemingly mindless chore, but my thoughts wandered about like children at play. It was in that moment when the misty showers no longer felt sticky that I thought of how God and negativity were a lot like this sap and our garden.

Our thoughts have a certain power upon our mood and our actions. When we allow negativity to build up and coat our “leaves,” we are left with a sticky residue amongst the garden of our heart and mind. Praising God through the struggle, turning to His word for guidance, simply banishing the negative thoughts which hammer us throughout the day…is like that high pressure hose washing away the sap and muck and leaving us clean and refreshed!

“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” 2Corinthians10:5

“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praiseworthy-think about such things.” Philippians 4:8