"How do you grow?"

I was working out on our farm one beautiful afternoon, clearing small trees and brush away from our electric fence line.

I worked along a section of fence and noticed something really interesting. There were three saplings growing together. The farthest sapling was under the shade of a more mature tree so it received less light. But here’s the interesting part: that sapling, instead of growing straight up in search of light in the mature tree’s shade, changed its growth pattern. The sapling grew at a 45 degree angle up through its companion saplings. It grew towards the light, changing its normal way of growing. In fact, it not only grew at a 45 degree angle through the other saplings toward the light, it had grown taller and fuller than the others.

Sometime today, you’ll walk up to a life intersection where you’ll have to choose between growing in a normal pattern and moving toward God’s Light. Choose to change. Move toward the Light. Take the road less traveled and grow toward God as you listen to life and make a life, not just a living.

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