Its Mama……O is for Organic
O is for Organic
Webster defines organic as in connection with living matter. I always thought of organic living as being a farmer and growing things in the ground. Or, even in a young girl’s window ….your Great Grandfather Chet Millstead gave me some hot peppers when I was young and I grew them in my bedroom window seal. I remember thinking I was a real farm girl and even went around our farm in Flaherty, Kentucky singing, “I was raised in country sunshine…green grass beneath my feet” as I did so.
And, I think there is a lot of truth to that….living organically really is living from the fruit of the earth…and, is healthier for us. But I am also realizing that organic relationships are just as important to us.
I believe organic living also applies to those familial relationship God put into our lives.
Being blood related should make a difference, especially as Christians. Your parents, siblings, cousins, and others should really be some of your closest friends, partners, and life mates. And that should be so because what God puts together, He as told us “let no man put asunder” and I don’t think applies only to spouses, but also to our families.
I am in a season of my own life where I see division and separation among family members. I personally have taken the knife of divorce and divided our own family in conjunction with your dad. We were wrong. It is wrong. And, as much as I love, appreciate, and adore Ian and thank God for giving him to me and you children, I will always carry sorrow for the failure of not “keeping together what God Joined together”. At 59 years old, I have long ago owned my part in doing that and appreciate that where I lost faith, God did not. And I live in the joy of knowing that where true repentance is sought, is it given….organically, from the only one who can do that….God
You cannot get more organic than God
When you live for Him, abide in Him, sift all of your life decisions through the filter of His call for your life, it is as if you are deep in the middle of the garden, trowel in hand, breaking up the dirt clots of life and embracing all that is good and healthy and well.
It gives clarity in your life to what is important and meaningful…perhaps because from dust we come and to dust we go…I don’t know.
But I do believe that it is impossible to have a life full of it’s goodness and the goodness God intended without being deep in the garden with your faith.
So, protect yourself….stay in the garden
Love
Live organically…Where you do your best to be healthy with those that God put together…your parents, your siblings, your family, and even your friends
Live organically…so that the soil of your life is one which nurtures yourself so that when the storms of life come your way, you are able to weather them
Live organically…so that others who enter within the gates of your garden are able to feast on the beauty of your spirit and grow and blossom along with you
Be real
Be authentic
Be purposeful in living close to the ground of God’s word for it is there that the best of you will develop, mature, and become the beautiful soul God intended you to be….
Grow the garden of your life…organically
Real with God…authentic with yourself…pure in your relationships
ILYAOYMC,
Mama
