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Friday 16 |
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Challenge
There was just one plant left of this variety. It was old, overgrown for the small pot, wilted, brown and good as dead. It challenged my green thumb.
The salesman totalled up my purchases and came to the Pineapple Sage. He picked it up, turned it around a couple of times, and looked embarrassed.
Then he smiled. "If you think you can get it to grow, you can have it for free," he said. "Are you up to the challenge?"
"Bring it on!" I smiled back. Today I have multiple clumps of Pineapple Sage around the garden grown from one nearly-dead plant.
They remind me I was once like the dying pot of Sage. I turned myself over to God – for free - and His green thumb must have been severely challenged. He took me up...
‘...because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved.’ Ephesians 2:4,5 So do you honestly think you can avoid challenging God?
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I
selected a number of new shrubs for the garden and then searched the large
nursery for a Pineapple Sage.