"Home Grown"

"As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth." (Psalms 103:15)
I thought about numbering days, but there really is no point in doing that. And then I thought about planting a garden, but who would care for it? Finally, and without much effort at all, I figured out that it is neither about days or planting, but it is about being planted. At the first sign of trouble, we want to make something happen; it is just something that we do, it's like a reaction that happens within, as if our mind needs to figure out what is wrong and then try to correct the direction that our life is headed. Growing up, I loved to watch that cartoon with to turtle and the lizard. Every day, the turtle would come to the lizard, who happened to be a wizard, and he would choose some kind of work that he might like to try. Without fail, every new profession or adventure would end in a disaster; leaving the turtle no choice but to cry out, "Help! Mr. Wizard." That might sound unrelated to anything this verse might be talking about, but it really depends what side of life you are looking at and the direction of the days you are counting. If we are counting the days that are spent, they have been burned up and turned to ash; if we are counting the days ahead, how can they be counted, since we have no date to base them on? It does not need to be negative, not if you are planted by God! If you don't think that you are where God would have you, then make the very best of where you are at, and see where God will take you. We can serve God from anywhere or in any situation. Sometimes we miss out on serving Him altogether, because we look to serve Him somewhere else, other than where it is that God has placed us. If we lived our life like that "flower of the field," then we would surely know that it is because of where we are that we are able to flourish; if we were uprooted, then we would whither and no longer shine...
""Listen to me, all who hope for deliverance -all who seek the LORD! Consider the rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were mined. Yes, think about Abraham, your ancestor, and Sarah, who gave birth to a nation. Abraham was only one man when I called him. But when I blessed him, he became a great nation." The LORD will comfort Israel again and have pity on her ruins. Her desert will blossom like Eden, her barren wilderness like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found there. Songs of thanksgiving will fill the air." (Isaiah 51:1-3) NLT