Freedom Rain

Sometimes we think the grass in our yard is perfect, and then the rain comes watering everything and we find little weeds that apparently were there all the time, but weren't quite visible before. Ok, so Maybe I'm inspired by the rainy week we had, in this metaphor, but I also learned that this week from the one and only Jack Hayford. 

Mr. Hayford came to Redding this week to speak at Bethel, and I got to listen to him a couple times. The first time he talked about integrity, and how something is whole only when it's 100% there (I know it sounds redundant, but that's the point ;). One percent missing, and it won't do. He spoke on those little things we can let grow in our hearts, or even things from our past that we don't even remember anymore, but that we never accounted for. 

Then this morning in church he talked about 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 that talks about debunking arguments in our minds. He specifically addressed those thoughts that seem to be our imaginations, but that are misconceptions of what someone else thinks about us, or what we think about ourselves, our identity. It's easy to entertain those thoughts, since they can be so sutil. But we need to believe and think truth. For our own sake.

Those two lessons really hit my heart, specially because they seem so sutil, like those little weeds that you don't even see until it rains hard and for days, I feel like I had entertained thoughts in my head that were simply lies. In a culture of so much rain, so much freedom and pouring into your spirit, those things sprout too, and need to be recognized and weeded out. I felt that it's exactly what my Papa did with those sutil thoughts of comparison and inadequacy that had sometimes sprouted in my heart in this season. I feel that specially with the abundant watering that I've been getting in this season, it's important to have a flourishing garden that brings a nice fragrance to the One on High.