Script+Haven

We put our leaves on instagram— the good, favorable conditions in our lives that we deem “picture-worthy.” But did you know that grape vines only produce fruit when the grape is scared that it’s not going to survive? Recently, I was listening to Beth Moore speak on a podcast about this idea and it really stuck with me.
While grapevines prefer rocky, sandy soil, they also need abundant water during the growing season. And they need the Vine…the same applies for you and me. While fear and fruit are theologically incompatible, the basic premise exists: it is rarely under comfortable conditions that we will ever bear a lot of fruit. We need the rocky soil and we need to stay close to the Source of abundance. The adverse conditions in our lives have purpose in leading us towards the abundant life we were meant for. “Otherwise we’re all just leaves.”
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**Read John 15 for more on this and also because it’s one of the best chapters in the Bible. And listen to The Happy Hour podcast episode with Beth Moore.
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(ps yes I know this is an olive branch, the metaphor still applies)

Colorado Fall means it’s mid 70s one day, and 21° and snowy the next... but I guess I’m here for it???

18 years.
“Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children.”
- President George W. Bush
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18 years later, I remember. WE remember. Let us never forget.

future so bright // gotta wear sunnies

Truth hurts, then it heals.

Fire goes out without wood, and quarrels disappear when gossip stops. - proverbs 26:20