Roots

At the beginning of May I bought two hydrangeas to add to my flower bed. May was a busy month with a vacation, med school graduation, and a trip to Georgia, so my hydrangeas didn't get planted. I continued to water these plants in there pots but struggled with the time to get them planted in the ground. One of the plants looked like it was not going to make it, in fact in kind of looked rough from the time I got it, but I continued to water it and I finally decided it just wasn't going to make it. When it came time to plant the plants I had gotten I choose not to plant this hydrangea and just get rid of it because after all it was not good. Well my mom convinced me that I should plant it. Earlier this week I was admiring my hydrangeas and what do you know that one that was no good, was now the prettiest one in the flower bed. In reality there was nothing wrong with the plant it just needed room to grow.

You see our lives are a lot like this flower. There may be times when someone thought you weren't worth the work or maybe you thought someone wasn't worth the work that they may never amount to anything. In reality at some point we all look like this poor hydrangea did, our sin can overcome us, and our weakness can define us, but we just need someone to believe in us and replant us to we have room to grow. That is what God does with us, He sees the value in our weakness and failures but chooses to replant us so we can develop roots and grow into a beautiful masterpiece. The transplanting process from the pot to the ground is not always easy, but the result is worth the work. God desires for us to be rooted in Him, so we can overcome our fears, weakness, and failures and become strong men and women who proclaim is love to those around us. 

I recently started my residency in psychiatry, over the past two weeks I feel like I have been removed from my comfortable flower pot and put into the big flower bed. This change has been overwhelming at times. I am addressed as Doctor Kauble and asked for orders but at times I feel inadequate. I am making decisions for my patients and making recommendations for the health. It is a very humbling experience to have this new role and be trusted with the health of others.  Residency will be a time of molding me, I will be forced to answer questions and make decisions but I will also have those who will guide me in this process. I also know that the Lord will guide me through this time in the same way He did in medical school. I look at my new journey into residency much in the way that God molds our lives. Sometimes he uproots us from our comfortable flower pots and transplants us into big flower beds so we can develop strong roots that will last. We have to go through this process to fulfill God's call in our lives. 

Praying that you will be rooted in God's grace and love for your lives. 

"For this reason I kneel before the Father,  from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.  I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,  so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,  may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,  and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God"

Ephesians 3:14-19