A Time to Pluck Up

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven– 
    ²A time to give birth and a time to die;
         A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.

We’ve had a lot of rain here in northwest Alabama this fall. A lot of rain. The ground is soft everywhere. And it just keeps raining.

One Sunday recently my friend Marie Lewey was leading worship. She talked about the rain and referenced how we could just soak in God’s presence. And that we did. God showed up in such beautiful ways.

 In the midst of what Marie was sharing, she mentioned that when the ground was saturated, it was a good time to pull things up. She said that she and her husband Ronnie had recognized that it was a good time to work in the flower beds on this particular weekend, pulling weeds, removing annuals and relocating some perennials.  "It was so much easier because the ground was saturated," she said. 

I could see the picture in my mind. A big strong hand pulling up a dying flower with the roots hanging down covered with wet soil. And I thought of this verse. There is a time to uproot what is planted.   Read more...