the gift of receiving

gift of life

Quick update. These past few weeks have been quite busy for me, especially at work where we’ve picked up a few new clients. So I’ve been racing to finish as much work before I leave for vacation tomorrow. I’m going home to Alabama for a week to visit family and friends. Then last weekend was packed full of excitement, my wife came down with a horrible stomach bug that kept her in bed all day Saturday while I went to my company Christmas party, and then Sunday was our anniversary. So I would apologize for not writing sooner, but I think it’s understandable. However, I did want to share something with you that hit me yesterday in a brief moment of inspiration while I was in the bathroom.

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tree of life

Tree of Life is Jesus Christ

Staring out my car window, parked next to my house, I noticed the two bushes that were planted as a mere covering for the eye sore that is our ac unit. The one thing that’s always caught my attention since moving in close to a year ago is how one of the bushes is completely dead, and the other is full of life and green as can be. Both bushes receive the same amount of sunlight day after day and both are on fertile soil. Yet the one on the left remains dead and void of any life.

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sharing with you

Last week I posted a few lessons I’ve learned along the way that I wanted to share with you. And in return I asked for you to respond with your own lessons in life, design or faith that you’ve learned to share with all of us. Now I know this isn’t the “end-all-be-all” list of lessons to share with each other, but I’m reminded by what someone smarter than me once said; “you have to start somewhere.”

My hopes are that you find something today that will inspire you and help you push past whatever problem you’re facing. To encourage you to open up your life and let others help you out. And in the end to help others out the same way.

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