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“Repurposing Strawberries and Weaknesses”

On June 15, 2019 by Dteb With 0 Comments - down to earth believer

A good friend of mine and I were chatting on the phone, going over our needs for the day, and praying.  I mentioned that I was going to clear out my strawberry patch, and turn my strawberries into compost.  “They’ve done their duty.  Now, they will be repurposed as compost, and worked back into the soil.”  I think that I was comforting myself by framing this as “repurposing,” rather than grubbing out my strawberries.  Sometimes, you have to steel yourself to say goodbye to something or someone you love.

When my friend prayed over the phone, he took my composting deeper, making it about more than strawberries, and thus, much more profound.  He said something to this effect: “LORD, please help us to root out our weaknesses, and repurpose them as compost.”

Yes!

Our weaknesses may have once been our strengths, but (like my strawberries) it may be time to repurpose them.  The time has come for something else.

Of course, one day we will all be ready to become compost, won’t we?  Embalming and burial in a coffin will slow the process, but will not prevent it.  A cheery thought, isn’t?

But even while we live, there are things in us that need to die.  It helps to think of even those things as being repurposed.  There are many things in all of us that are bad.  There is nothing that can’t be used for a good purpose.  Figuring out how is the work of a lifetime.

What can you repurpose?  Why not start right now?

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