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Don’t sit on the cactus

“Being negative only makes a journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don’t have to sit on it.” - Joyce Meyer Joyce is and has always been one of my favorite Christian speakers. She bluntly tells it like it is and I long to have that personality. But what she says is always true, whether we want to accept it or not. I read this quote while waiting in the car rider line with my children and it struck me that this is my life now. I have been given a cactus and I have been sitting on it. No wonder I was such a “pain in the rear” (no pun intended). I would mope around, cry, blame it on someone else. I was not a happy wife or mommy to be around yet I couldn’t turn it around. It was like I was living in this bubble of negativity that couldn’t be popped. I’ve read and listened to a lot of Joyce’s sermons. So many, in fact, I could probably tell you her life story. She has become a huge mentor to me. There are still plenty of times where all I can be is negative. I mean -

Weeds

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Weeds To the bottom left is the dead plant (in the pine straw). I know it’s hard to see with all the dead grass! We have two of these types of plants, both on each side of the sidewalk, leading to the front door of our house. They had grown so tall and wide, it hid the beauty of our house. They lined the sidewalk to our house and you could barely walk through them to get to our front door. Last summer, my husband and I decided to chop them down and let them regrow. No, we are not expert garden people, but we figured they would just grow back the next season. That’s why they were planted there, right? So, the picture is what they look like now. It’s the next season. If you look close, you can see some leaves that are coming back, just a little bit but not how I thought they would grow back. However, I took this pic because to the right you can see a beautiful bright green “something” coming up. Most people would call this a weed. But I see something more. I see, life, beauty, a second