The On-Purpose™ Proverb
Neglect a garden for a week and the weeds will over take the flowers. Neglect your dreams for a day and busyness will overrun your life.
Weeds are easier to grow than flowers. There’s a life lesson here: bounty and beauty take effort. To tend to what matters most we have to be willing to get on our hands and knees to get a little dirty with the pleasures and pain of hard work.
Are you feeling discouraged or overwhelmed? Chances are that unwanted weeds of busyness have entangled your soul and choked your dreams. Feelings of being overwhelmed are taking you off-purpose.
Here’s what to do to be back on-purpose. Everyday do a little weeding of your unwanted habits that occupy your time but are not advancing your life. Give care and feeding to the flowers of your life. Weeds will always be with us, but by tending the flowers and eliminating the weeds, your desired dreams can blossom in time.
So yank those weeds out by the roots. Focus on the flowers and cultivate your life to bloom abundantly.
By Kevin W. McCarthy
Weeds are easier to grow than flowers. There’s a life lesson here: bounty and beauty take effort. To tend to what matters most we have to be willing to get on our hands and knees to get a little dirty with the pleasures and pain of hard work.
Are you feeling discouraged or overwhelmed? Chances are that unwanted weeds of busyness have entangled your soul and choked your dreams. Feelings of being overwhelmed are taking you off-purpose.
Here’s what to do to be back on-purpose. Everyday do a little weeding of your unwanted habits that occupy your time but are not advancing your life. Give care and feeding to the flowers of your life. Weeds will always be with us, but by tending the flowers and eliminating the weeds, your desired dreams can blossom in time.
So yank those weeds out by the roots. Focus on the flowers and cultivate your life to bloom abundantly.
By Kevin W. McCarthy
posted by Kevin W. McCarthy at
12:30 PM
4 Comments:
Can sure relate on the kidney stones, used to get them every June, nurses said its partly because we start drinking more water due to warmer weather. Of course you know what to do then...If that doesnt help, you can ask me what else I did. Hope you feel back to normal very soon.
Your thought today was right on; like the tide to a sandcastle, the day washes in over our good intentions and our vision. I guess the castle needs some daily protection and scrutiny. A new intention is born; with focus it should rise above the others that washed away.
Nicely said regarding the good intentions and sand castles.
Kidney stones every June! Yikes! No fun. My brother has had 9 of them. The last one he jammed a hand vibrator into his sharpest pain area for as long as he could stand it, then passed the stone about 30 minutes later. Not sure what the Dr. might say about that, but it worked for him. :
Be On-Purpose!
Kevin
Kevin,
Your reference to the neglect of a garden and then seeing your customary closing of Be On-Purpose struck me in light of my time alone with God this morning. I have been reading in 1 Kings. Verse 1 of chapter 9 really stood out. It says, "When Solomon dad finished building the temple fo the Lord and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do ...." As I read on it became clear that Solomon was no longer On-Purpose and from that point forward slid into sin.
I just parted company with a friend whose last comment was how essential knowing his purpose has been to him and the vitality it brings to every aspect of his life. He's 68 and just returned from Ecuador from a discipleship mission trip.
Blessings,
Steve Brooks
Thanks Steve and Gustavo for the well wishes and thoughts. It appears we have on-purpose poets working the blog.
I've been overwhelmed by the outpouring of response, not to the On-Purpose Proverb, but my kidney stone. I didn't know so many people cared.
Having a purpose is so anchoring as John's 68 year old friend said. Gustavo, I wasn't really all that useful. I like your perspective. Flowers were forming.
Fortunately, I was laid up when the British Open was on tv so I watched Tiger win that. Other than tv, I really couldn't focus for about more than ten minutes at a time for about a week and a half. I was amazed I couldn't get it together. I was also weak, not a feeling I'm used to having.
I have come out of it blessed. I lost about 15 pounds and am keeping them off and then some. That is a good thing.
Blessings all!
Kevin
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