Wanda had a plain green pot. Little pot with holes on the bottom. I came in the bedroom where we were watching medium. I had to go to the bathroom and I still think that that should be a private matter. When I came in my mom had put Wanda in a nice white pot with little flowers and vines and leaves just large enough that the green pot is hidden. Also, no holes on the bottom so when she gets a drink I do not have to have her sit on paper towels.
If there were shoes with the same pattern AnnMarie would LOVE them.
Had lunch with a friend and other than April my friend, no one asked about Wanda. I must be a person who looks normal carrying a plant named Wanda.
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Haha - AnnMarie would SO own those shoes! (She had some AWESOME orange sneaker-y type of shoes on yesterday!)
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"I must be a person who looks normal carrying a plant..."
This made me think, because even though some people don't say anything to me as I'm carrying Ellie around, I feel anything BUT normal! I'm not sure why, but it's actually quite uncomfortable for me. I try to justify it by saying "Well, I might be more excited about it if it was just a little bit smaller/more convenient to carry around." (Ellie is a 2ft Neanthebella Palm).
I've noticed that I have difficulty carrying it around on campus at USF - not because I mind sharing the story of why I have it (actually that part is really exciting to me), but primarily because balancing a backpack, arm full of books, laptop bag AND a plant and lugging it all across campus when I'm in a hurry is turning out to become not my favorite thing.
So...(I promise I'm going somewhere with this), I refused to drag it around campus yesterday and left it in my car instead. As I was rushing to my next class I hear in my head, "But whoever denies and disowns Me before men, I will also deny and disown him before my Father in heaven" (Mt. 10:33). It stopped me dead in my tracks. And I honestly was like "Oh, come on! It's a PLANT, it's not JESUS!"
And then it hit me - Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, is living on the inside of me. Sometimes, just sometimes, He likes to show it - like he's proud of the home he has inside of me. And just like carrying this plant around on the outside of me (which can get pretty uncomfortable), Jesus on the inside of me looks pretty strange to people too (just the IDEA of it - it's something they can't tangibly see - makes them uncomfortable).
And I realized that maybe why I'm uncomfortable with carrying this plant around outside is because it's reflecting what's going on on the inside of me - that sometimes, when I'm surrounded by people that prompt me to be politically correct and religiously neutral in a college environment where neutrality is 'god', carrying Jesus around (much less letting Him shine through me) who is by NO MEANS a neutral option to people gets a little uncomfortable.
"The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing." A toast to looking foolish in the eyes of the world!
Some people wear jewelry and some don't. Is that any different than some people carry around a plant and some people don't. Normal should not be defined by others regarding us. How cool that your mom took part in your plant. You may have sunlight for your plant this week.
ReplyDeleteI find that occasionally people find it so strange that I carry a plant that they are afraid to ask. I think sharing Christ can leap to the same bounds. I think that occasionally in the rare occasion that I actually look strange or do something strange to the world that asking why I did that seems intimidating.
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