Uncertain smile. Tempted by the fruit of another.

*Sensitive subject*

Please be kind.

Sowing the seeds of love?

I beg to differ.

A fumble.

A stumble.

For the clock.

Thinking, wondering, speculating, stipulating, piecing together, piecing apart

The constant and daily

threats.

A foot without a sock.

Thank you God.

For never, never wavering.

And for taking your time to take my time.

For staying by my side. My achey, achey side.

”How much time is there?

”How much longer do I have to endure,

This?

Should I stay or should I go.

Paralyzed with a fear of a secret.

Nothing magical.

Just a secret.

A hold of all holds.

The desire to drop it.

Anywhere.

Everywhere.

To release the burden.

The heavy, heavy burden.

Carried deep within the soul.

Almost too much to bear alone.

When lonesome-ness arrives,

So too can temptation.

The messages bombard all is well again— unless the most important message is not heard, ignored, rejected.

Rejection stings.

Like the thorn.

Dropped like a hot potato (rc)

And no one bothered to stop.

Jesus tests us.

Every day.

In every way.

”Why is it that your disciples disobey the teaching handed down by your ancestors? They don’t wash their hands in the proper way before they eat! (Matthew 15)

Jesus answered:”And why do you disobey God’s command and follow your own teaching?” For God said, Honor your Father and Mother. And anyone who says bad things about his father or mother must be put to death.”

Man-made commandments.

No. Jesus does not approve.

Jesus called those who disregard God’s word to follow own teachings hypocrits.

Isaiah was right. Jesus said.

“These people, says God, honor me with their words,

but their heart is really far away from me.

It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach man-made commandments as though they were God’s rules!”

Do not be a blind leader.

Like the seed that fell, along the path.

When it was desperately trying to escape.

The Evil One comes and snatches away what was sown in them.

(Matthew 13- 19/20.)

Tempted by the fruit of another.

Rocky roads.

Rocky grounds.

Sounds like a bad thing.

But it is not.

We learn to crawl before we walk. Walk before we run.

Run Away. Sometimes.

”The seed that fell on rocky ground stands for those who receive the message gladly as soon as they hear it.

Stands for.

Stands up.

Thank you God.

For helping us to hear the cries.

Cries inform.

Of what to do.

Of what not to do.

Further.

Those who ignore, delete, blast of the ultimate and never ending text “stream”. String of streams. To flimsy connection.

Why respond?

Why pick and choose who and whom not respond to because persecution and trouble comes their way, and choose to ignore a seed of change sinking deep within their soul. Destined to come up and out one way or another. What is this state of mind?

Lack of courage.

To stand up.

They give up at once.

Tempted by the fruit of another.🍓🔥🥀🔥

The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear the message,

Like a beautiful rose.

However, the seed that fell among the thorns stands for those who hear the message, but the worries about this life and love for riches choke the message, and they don’t bear fruit.

Stranglehold.

Tempted by the fruit of another.

A stranglehold of seduction daily, eye to eye, face to face, text to text, elbow to elbow.

What or who hides behind the message?

A sufferer.

A seed sown in the good soil stands for those who hear and near the message and understand it: they bear fruit, some as much as one hundred, others sixty, others thirty. (Gnfmm)

Beauty is everywhere. In everyone.Sometimes it takes a bit longer to dig deep and find it. It is there. The Evil One may win in the short term stranglehold way, but not for the long haul long term

How do I know?

Someone answered my cries. My whispered cries. My flippy cries. The loud ones too.

And did not judge.

Me.

This allowed me to look out on the landscape of life and see the beauty that is around. Why, just the other day, I beared witness to a beautiful deer, on its hind legs, reaching high above to eat the berries.🍓🍒🫐

A sight to behold! A sight never forgotten!😃

Jesus asks us repeatedly to listen and understand.

Words can cut like a knife.

”It is not what goes into a person’s mouth that makes him unclean.”

The Pharisees came to Him and said, “Do you know that the Pharisees had their feelings hurt by what you said?”

Join the club.

(Hey, pretty sure you were thinking it too.)

Jesus replied to the Pharissees, “Every plant which my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up. “Don’t worry about them, they are blind leaders; and when one blind man leads another one, both fall into a ditch.” (Matthew 15)

Ouch.

Jesus said to them, “You are still no more intelligent than the others. Don’t you understand? Anything that goes into a person’s mouth goes into his stomach and then out of the body.l😤😡🤢🤮🤑.

Jesus said further and most importantly: “But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart; such things make a man unclean. For from his heart come the evil ideas which lead him to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others.”

Tempted by the fruit of another.

These are the things that make a man unclean.

A foot without a sock.

“To eat without washing your hands as they say you should—this does not make a man unclean.” (Matthew 15)

There is nothing magical about secrets.

They seek to destroy, whispered, shouted, covered.

Blessed be the person who hears the cries and answers.

Make a little noise.

Make a lot of noise.

Demons hide in the recesses.

Get the problem out of the way?

Smile.

Though your heart is breaking.

Smile.

When your side is aching.

Smile.

With the certainty of God’s love in your life.

Strive to be a person of great faith.

Why?

Healed people heal people.