GROWING SEEDS: "Newsletter"

When You Sordof Feel Like Your Drowning

Where Is Your Strength?

As I was preparing to write this article, I waffled back and forth on what to say after a week of tornados and death; after a month of explosions and government corruption and after a year of the most despicable hate crimes this world has ever seen.  Or do I write about the New Chapter our brand smackin' new adults called "Graduates" are just starting?

STRENGTH

streNG(k)TH, Noun, 

1. the quality or state of being strong 

2. a good or beneficial quality or attribute of a person or thing 

3. the number of people comprising a group

Awwwww.......STRENGTH.  How do we have the strength to pull ourselves away from the views of the 2 mile wide tornado baring down on an innocent little town watching it destroy and disrupt lives forever?  Knowing that for some, they only have minutes....seconds before they discover their child will never come home to their mom and peanut butter sandwichs again.....knowing that husbands and wives who had just eaten oatmeal together and kissed each other goodbye just a few hours prior, would never be blessed with these simple taken-for-granted moments ever again? 

STRENGTH....How do you find strength to learn to walk with a prosthetic leg when a moment before, you were running a marathon?  Or learning to strengthen your imagination to "feel" your spouses hand in yours.....but yours is plastic now.  

STRENGTH....to walk across that stage after 12 long years, with your parents, grandparents and life long friends on the sidelines cheering you on as you celebrate the finish of one race and the start of another.  

The only question is; whose STRENGTH are you going to rely on?  

Yours or God's?