Make Room

In the winter of 2020, my daughter was given a science project to germinate seeds in wet cotton balls. The seeds were placed in a ziplock bag and pasted to a window. After germination it was planted in soil, giving it the necessary nutrients, water, sunlight, and all the necessary things a plant needed to grow and mature.

The Encroaching of Roots

However, we soon realized that the planters and the pots which we initially used did not accommodate the continued growth of the pants. The sunflowers and the marigolds did not have sufficient space to allow for the maturing. As a result, some of the sunflowers were choked and died because of the limited space, some received too much water that caused its stem to absorb it and died, and there were the ones that were too fragile due to limited space causing maturation of the stems, hence they too broke and died.

This scenario causes us to examine the laws of nature and how the principle of allowing yourself the space to mature and grow is vital to one sustenance, longevity, and maturity.

The sunflowers placed in the pot with limited spacing affected its growth. Moreover, it is the same with people, some places and people you are planted around will encroach upon you and curtail your growth.

 

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 Environments can become toxic as a result of people and what they poured into us. The vicissitudes of life can create weak cores in us, and false misconceptions about what you lend to stunted growth. Sometimes too much of a good thing can leave you with the inability to function. The Law of nature teaches sustenance is due to equilibrium (balance). 

Where the is no balance maturity is stifled

 Now, you are unable to breathe and make decisions that will cause you to become resilient, persistent, and even formidable. 

 You reflect on your life and it seems like you're stuck in a place where all you are surrounded by weak saplings, no room to breathe or extend your roots. Growing stronger cores or stems requires sobriety to access your environs, the ability to be selective of conditions that suit growth, and being resilient during the transition. Understand, just as a plant needs room to mature, grow, and extend its roots,  so does a human.

Take all the room in the Word, that your roots may grow deep in God, and let your shoot extend to the highest heavens embracing the brilliance of the Son. All that matters now is that God loves us with an everlasting love that causes it to penetrate the deep recesses of our hearts. The fruits you able to bear are dependent upon the conditions in which you are planted.

Release yourself into the everlasting arms of God who has given us the precious gift of his Holy Spirit that causes us to be sustained in any condition. Continue to go forward as the Holy Spirit is your guiding light to illuminated the darkness of the soils of life. We can face our fears, we can face the darkness, we can face the evils, we can face anything because all things are made possible through Christ Jesus who gives us strength. So we make room to grow we make room for our roots to deepen in Christ's past transition zones. 

Make room for your roots so that you may elevate and mature fully.

Photo: Credit: Nature-and-Garden