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Lessons from an Ungrateful Plant

4/24/2020

 
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As instructed, I watered my mom’s indoor tree.  It’s a tree so I gave it a half gallon of water only to find at least 2 quarts :0) of it in a puddle under the planter.  What an ungrateful plant!  I went to all the trouble of giving it a drink – and it spilled it all over the floor!
This tree lives in the desert – where water is life and it is even scarcer than shade.  But this plant doesn’t even know it is in the desert because it sits in a climate controlled suite with multiple sunny windows.
And as I cleaned up all that water, I realized how often I am like this with God.  I assume His blessings will always be there.  I waste His gifts because I take them for granted.  It is only when they are taken away that I realize what I had.  That shouldn’t be. 
I need to be alert to God’s many blessings all around me.  Only once I recognize God’s gifts can I be grateful for them and use them as a wise steward.  And not be like my foolish, spoiled, ungrateful tree.

​As instructed, I watered my mom’s indoor tree.  It’s a tree so I gave it a half gallon of water only to find at least 2 quarts :0) of it in a puddle under the planter.  What an ungrateful plant!  I went to all the trouble of giving it a drink – and it spilled it all over the floor!
This tree lives in the desert – where water is life and it is even scarcer than shade.  But this plant doesn’t even know it is in the desert because it sits in a climate controlled suite with multiple sunny windows.
And as I cleaned up all that water, I realized how often I am like this with God.  I assume His blessings will always be there.  I waste His gifts because I take them for granted.  It is only when they are taken away that I realize what I had.  That shouldn’t be. 
I need to be alert to God’s many blessings all around me.  Only once I recognize God’s gifts can I be grateful for them and use them as a wise steward.  And not be like my foolish, spoiled, ungrateful tree.

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