I had a Sunday school teacher once (Andy Hines) who had a favorite saying: bloom where you’re planted. This is an extremely important concept especially when one considerers the lack of control we exercise in our lives. I’m not in the hospital today, but I could be tomorrow. I have a good work environment today, but no environment is guaranteed. I live in a comfortable home today, but a storm could blow it away tomorrow. Much (of where I am, what I do, and where I go) is outside my control. In many ways, I am planted at any given time in a given set of circumstances. Even when I make an effort to change circumstances, all these efforts may meet with limited success. So in the short run and to some extent even in the long run I can be seen as planted. The crucial question is one of attitude. What will my attitude be when I find I am more or less fenced in?
A positive, constructive, creative attitude is encompassed in the phrase: bloom where you’re planted. The alternative is to atrophy out of defensiveness or bitterness. Nourishment requires a spiritual perspective—you have an eternal purpose where you are. You have a calling to choose life and make a difference.
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