WARMER WEATHER AND METAPHORS

photo:josh collins / edit: me

"Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is." -Marianne Williamson

As I was driving today, I was thinking about the beautiful weather and how spring is right around the corner. Then I thought about the plants and the sweets smells of summer and just how darn beautiful everything is. I kept relishing in the fact that everything seems to come alive during spring. Then I thought:

You know how shrubs and other plants have to be trimmed so they can grow better once the spring season comes? Well, I thought how we are those shrubs. Yes. We are the shrubs (I'm not crazy...). You know, the ones who are beaten and battered from the cold winter months. To become better plants we have to "trim" and "throw away" parts of the past that we don't want to remember, or the things we wish we hadn't done. But more than that, we need to acknowledge that those "bad limbs" were part of us and made us who we are now.

So, what I am trying to say is that, right now, we all need to repent and throw away our sin. Run to the Lord who will make you better, cleaner. Every one of us has had those dark, cold times when nothing seems to go, or grow (pun intended) our way, but when we run to the Lord, we begin to soak in the light and grow more beautiful than ever before.

If you decide not to take anything away from this message today, just take this with you: you are never too far gone, or too "dead" to not be forgiven. Take your sin. Ask for forgiveness. And become new.

With Love, Sarah

ps. I don't know if it's the writer in me, or the fact that my class just got done reading Julius Caesar, but I am just feelin' the metaphorical mojo.