30/31 - Pruning

"Do you see what this means-all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running-and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed-that exhilarating finish in and with God-he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!" Hebrews 12

Sometimes, when everything else is stripped away and pruned back, and all you've got is Jesus, you wonder why you haven't been in this place all the time.


Also - I found these secateurs under our kitchen cupboard. What?! I don't want to know why and how long they have been there for. Considering we have barely any plants in our slab of concrete garden, I struggle to see their use...