FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ GROWING DEEP AND STRONG ~ 24 May 2020

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

 

GROWING DEEP AND STRONG

One day my mother and I were working together in the garden where we were transplanting plants for the third time. Grown from seed in a small container, the plants had been transferred to a larger container; then transplanted into the garden. Now, because I was moving, we were transplanting them once again.

Inexperienced as a gardener, I turned to my green-thumbed mother. "Isn’t this bad for them?" I asked, as we dug them up and shook the dirt from the roots. "Won’t it hurt these plants, being uprooted and transplanted so many times?" "Oh" my mother replied, "Transplanting doesn’t hurt them. In fact, it’s good for the ones that survive. That’s how their roots grow strong. Their roots will grow deep, and they will make strong plants".

Often, I’ve felt like those small plants – uprooted and turned upside down. Sometimes I’ve endured the change willingly, sometimes reluctantly, but usually my reaction has been a combination. Won’t this be hard on me? I ask. Wouldn’t things be better if things remained the same? That’s when I remember my mother’s words: That’s how the roots grow deep and strong.

Chaplain Lisa Bohannon

 

[ExTexasRedhead]

The Path of the Warrior

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKqT0-3JV5E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

There is no such thing as “Happy Memorial Day”.
There is only prayer, remembrance, and honor to the fallen.

The video above will put you in the right frame of mind on this Memorial Day to pause, reflect, and be grateful to those veterans who gave their life to protect all America stands for and the freedoms we all enjoy daily. Be safe and stay healthy thru this Covid 19 pandemic. Our Veterans, who we will honor Monday on Memorial Day, would expect no less of us. God Bless and I remain Semper Fi.

[BTerclinger]

And a healthy chag sameach!