This week we have had VBS or Escuela Biblica Verano as we say here in Chile. It has been a huge blessing, but I have neglected my plants terribly. It is summer here and if you do not water your plants everyday they start to wilt and die. Needless to say, I failed to water my petunias for several days. They were looking so ugly. The green was not visible because of dead brown stems and wilted blooms. I went out this morning to rectify the problem, and as I was pulling out the dead parts and throwing them away I began to see the beauty again. God began to speak to my heart about my own life through this. Our past is just like those dead petunias. If we leave it hanging around in our hearts and minds, it will cover up the beauty to be seen in our own lives(which should be the reflection of Jesus). I don't want the past to cover up the beauty of Christ in my life...how about you? "Bretheren, I count not myself to apprehended: but this one thingI do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13-14
