So, it’s been a long, rather tiring day. I worked hard at my job today with lots of product to move, and I had a dog to walk before and after work as well. A neighbour is away for a short holiday, so I’m helping him out with Boone. Such a NICE dog. 🙂 Anyways, I sit here and ponder (while resting my aching feet) the word ROOT. A word prompt provided by Miss Kate. And I come up with roots laid down.
AND OOPS, I fell asleep! So starting again this morning Friday. Looking out my window at a sunshiny day with a light breeze.
Roots Laid Down
Sunshine, Lollipops and rainbows…
I don’t know why
when I think of root
this pops into my brain
running through my dreams
as I slept the night
away, awoken only by the
sudden closing of a door as
my lad heads off to work
at 6 a.m.
I fret over my boy
it seems all the day long.
I don’t mean to,
and I don’t want to,
but it’s a constant thing
in my head.
About how he doesn’t
know for a certainty
that the bible is true
and that God is real
just because some stupid
website told him so.
It’s like he’d rather
believe someone with a
vested interest against God
than believe what he was
taught growing up.
And yet, God,
yes God… keeps saying
that he minds me full well
that he understands my fretting.
And yet, he calls for me
to trust him.
To understand that
he is not finished with my lad.
So can I just trust him?
Can I believe that the
roots laid down for my lad
will have their say in the end?
Can I believe the words
he has written?
About how you train up
a child in the way
they should go…
how that training doesn’t
leave them?
Can I trust him?
Will I let my heart
Stop fretting so?
Will I choose to
follow the roots
laid down for me?
Today I say yes,
Yes, Lord. You the
one who bore the result
of ALL the sin of the
world laid down.
Yes, today I will choose to
honour that and I
Will CHOOSE this day
to trust you.
Will I have to make
that same choice tomorrow?
Most definitely.
It will be a work
in progress to
continually make that
choice. To
honour sacrifice,
to live by what has been
planted in my over
my now 57 years.
What choices will
you make this day?
what roots have been laid
down in your life?
And So God Speaks
Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV)
Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 (ESV)
6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Job 14: 14-17 (ESV)
If a man dies, shall he live again?
All the days of my service I would wait,
till my renewal should come.
15 You would call, and I would answer you;
you would long for the work of your hands.
16 For then you would number my steps;
you would not keep watch over my sin;
17 my transgression would be sealed up in a bag,
and you would cover over my iniquity.
The roots were laid down early,
before the way back when,
and I get real surly
when I think of public men
who think they are the greatest
invention since lav paper,
but they’re just the latest
to try out the caper
of the pulling of the wool
over squaddies’ eyes,
thinking Tommy is a fool
for he in combat dies
while “I’m better than sliced bread!”
gets to pass at age, in bed.
well yeah, it’s the way it seems sometimes eh?
What a great post. It is hard to let go of those we love and leave them free to make their choices. Thank you for expressing the daily discipline involved in trusting.
thank you. It’s hard some days.
Our hearts ache for those near and dear to us that don’t see God at work. I pray for my brother and sometimes it is hard. So we keep praying.
it’s all we can do isn’t it?
Hugs for you dear friend as you faithfully trust the Lord with your lad.
thanks Lori
I join with Annette in prayer, crying out for Your Words of Life hidden within her son’s heart to choke out the “weeds” that the website planted in his mind. We cry out for Your Holy Spirit to lead him, guide him, help him to learn how to take his thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ Jesus. We cry out for you to use this for his good that what was meant to shake him from faith would instead cause him to be firmly rooted, established and grounded in You, in Your love, and Your Word. We thank you for surrounding him with Your love, so that He is cocooned in it – safe, protected in the palm of Your hands. And we pray for Your love, peace and prayers to surround Annette and her husband as they continue to lovingly guide their son through this “test of faith” he is experiencing.
Lisa… Thank you. Tears. 🙂
Now I have that song in my head. 🎵🎶🎵
FMF21
I did too… for the longest night. 🙂 Glad to pass it along….
Cool. You gave me more to think about. Yes, God lays down roots for us and are we using them. Thank you! FMF#8
God lays down excellent roots for us doesn’t he?
Such a cheery song. It made me smile on a very dreary day. Thanks for sharing the link.
As far as the lad, I feel your heart. I have one too who I have put in the Lord’s hand and keep praying for too.
oh, i’m glad I made you smile, and yes, we do need to trust the Lord don’t we?
Thank you! This was a good reminder that the roots we lay down as parents are grounded in Him and are not about us. Thanks for sharing. Your FMF neighbour at #7 this week.
they are very much not about us.
As I pray for your lad to return to the roots that you’ve tended faithfully, I’m also praying for you to continue trusting God! It’s hard work sometimes, isn’t it? But God is faithful.
Visiting (late!) from FMF#28
very hard work
I do believe that each of us have their own faith journey to make and while it’s natural to worry about our children, we must in a God that cares more for them than any human parent can.
Hugs and good wishes.
i know we must, but sometimes it’s hard