Like A Strong Tree, Yielding Fruit, Prospering

Years ago, illness interrupted my busy life.  Every unplanned, unscheduled, unforeseen detail of the illness impacted the way I thought, felt, and acted.  There's something about entering a crisis, when days seem like a strange dream, creating a disconnect to reality, as if it is a matter of time before things go back to the way it should be. More than anything,  I wanted to experience life again rather than to be at the end of the path. I struggled with what life had become, fearing the rest of my life  would be lost.

But.  There was a moment in time, that I knew I had to surrender and be grateful for what I had, to refuse giving up life because it had changed.

The thing is . . . we are faced every day with stuff that can consume us . . . causing us to miss the gift of the day.

It doesn't take an interruption to miss paying attention to the gift of the day. In the midst of managing the stuff of life, of busyness, of taking care of the daily details, of checking off a list of tasks, we can miss the reason, the meaning, the importance, and even the value of living.   Don't. Don't miss it.  Don't miss God's gift of life for the sake of interruptions or plain old busyness.  And if, for whatever reason, you’ve been missing life, stop, learn how to experience the gift of God in the day.
Consider.

1 Blessed are those 

   who do not walk in step with the wicked 

or stand in the way that sinners take 

   or sit in the company of mockers, 

2 but who delight in the law of the LORD 

   and meditate on his law day and night. 

3 They are like a tree planted by streams of water, 

   which yields its fruit in season 

and whose leaf does not wither— 

   whatever they do prospers. (Psalm 1, TNIV).

The Psalmist lays out the key to experience the gift of living in Psalm 1 . . . describing a life lived well . . . as a strong tree with deep roots, planted by streams of water, productive in season, yielding fruit, not withering, and prospering.

The key?  Don't walk in the ways of the world but focus on the plan God has designed for the best life, meditating on His how-to's.  

Don't miss the life you have received.
Focus on the best plan for your life.
Become like a strong tree, yielding fruit.
Prosper.

Learning to Kickstart the day living as a strong tree, yielding fruit, prospering,
Kerrie

(written by Kerrie Carlisle Palmer © 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)