Grow Where You Are Planted…

 Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.  Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters—that you may be increased there, and not diminished.  And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace.                                                                                                                                                 Jeremiah 29:5-7

You may have noticed that I was gone this weekend and did not post a blog. I took a few days for R&R. Glad to be back with you. I wanted to share a little lesson from my time away…

I took this picture while on a weekend getaway in southeastern Ohio. I immediately thought of the verse in Jeremiah where the prophet, exiled in Babylon cried out to God about his plight. God replied to him, essentially, “Jeremiah, pray for the prosperity of the people around you- even that pagan city of Babylon, for as they prosper, you prosper.”

Even in the roughest, most hostile environment, this tree found a way to grow. It grew on a rock! So, the word for us is, don’t fret about your current circumstances, grow where you are planted!