Transplant Day

  

Peace

Today I am transplanting some house plants that were given to me when a dear adopted mom I had passed away.

I am not a good person to have plants but I do enjoy them. In the past I have been one to kill all my plants. So when I was

given these plants I was scared. I love my adopted mom ! I knew she treasured her plants and made them not only flourish but thrive well. So for this plant killing woman to receive these was a serious commitment to the plants and to my dear departed mom. 

   Today I decided with the encouragement of my husband, who by the way has a green thumb, to transplant these beauties

and give them a boost before we settle in for the long winters rest. Surprisingly the plants have done well and are growing 

and in need for this transplant. Now I have no idea what time of year is best to transplant house plants or any of that which comes along with raising well adjusted house plants.  My husband had already gotten me some wonderful soil from out in our field a few weeks ago and I had it  out on our porch waiting for this day. I had brought it the other day to  warm in my kitchen awaiting the day I would do this. The task is nearly completed and I am now waiting on another large bucket of soil to warm so I can complete my project.

    So now I try to bring this blog subject into the realm of my life and how transplanting house plants can relate to my spiritual process with Jesus Christ. In order to do this I looked up the word transplant to get a better understanding of what it means. I love using this wonderful Wordflex app I have on my iPad so this gives me the chance to use it again.  First of all I notice at the bottom left hand side of the page the derivatives and transplanter is standing out to me, but onward to the word transplant I go. Definition: a person or thing that has been moved to a new place or situation. I also see these words : displace, relocate, shift, resettle. move, uproot, and the definition of replant {a plant} in another place. Well this certainly can be a definition for me at this time in my life as well as the whole spiritual life I am living. 

    One of the Scriptures God has given me as I do this online Bible study , "A Confident Heart ", is in Isaiah 43 verse 19 .

This verse is much needed for me as I am facing this place I am in at this time in my life. At times I feel so wound up tight. I guess I can see in this the way those roots in some of those plants I just transplanted were so tightly wrapped into each other. Some of the plants even had a rubber drain thing in the bottom that they had literally wrapped so tightly about that I did not see until I  felt it as I was trying to loosen the dirt to resettle the plant down into the new dirt in a new pot. I wonder now as I sit typing my thoughts in this blog what my life looks like to God {Transplanter}as he is planning new things for me at this time in my life. I am so busy wrapping my heart and my life around the roots of what used to be and all I know right here, right now, that I cannot see what God sees. Is God , like me with these root bound plants, transplanting me into a new pot with new soil for a new purpose? I believe he is ! The plants, unlike me, can't fight me in the process of the transplanting . I don't really want to fight against God but it comes so naturally for me. 

   I know I can trust God for all my tomorrows and have seen him do amazing things in and through some really terrible things. So I will step back and prepare my heart for the transplant that God so graciously does in a wonderful way. I am thankful he does all things well ! He makes no mistakes! I am thankful he sees the things I am wrapped around {like the rubber drain things in my plants } that are keeping me from growing and digging in deeper to get out of this life what He has for me. So today I am praying for this transplant to be a success, not only for my plants, but the transplant God is doing in me.  

     Isaiah 43:19 

 Behold, I will doing a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. 

Lord Jesus, 

  Thank you that you will do a new thing in my life. Thank you that you alone can make my roots to reestablish in this new place you are planting me at this time in my life. Thank you that you will see me through the transplant and that unlike me in my inabilities with house plants , You are the great Transplanter and will not let my spirit die in this new soil you are setting me into. Give me, Jesus , the will and want to to set down in this new place and grow deeper into Your Word and the power you have given me to be a success in what ever this new planting has for me. Amen.