A Plant Story: Change
Posted on 08. Jun, 2010 by Angie Wyatt in Blog
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What can plants teach us about Spiritual Wellness? I posed this question in my post A Plant Story. Recently, our three potted plants showed signs of slowed growth. After some investigation, my husband and I decided to repot.
The first plant, a small tree, had a good problem. This healthy tree outgrew its pot. The roots were strong and bursting at the seams. Like a strapping young boy, the plant was so healthy that it had outgrown its clothes. It simply needed room to grow. The lack of growth was a helpful clue, indicating that it was time for change.
Do you need more room to grow? Is it time for change? Have you become spiritually comfortable, no longer challenging yourself to grow? If so, it’s time to expand your boundaries.
On the 10th anniversary of Oprah’s hit magazine, Dr. Phil shaved his mustache! He did this to make his point, “You’ve got to be willing to change.” Dr. Phil says that a willingness to change is often the best advice he can offer. People acclimate to routine, then stop growing and learning. His prescription: Change.
Spiritual Wellness and Change
Life-long growth is vital to our Spiritual Wellness. When we try new activities or meet new people, we challenge ourselves. When we take calculated risks with God, we learn more about His nature and love, and His plan for our lives. We also learn more about our capabilities, talents and strengths. Change is a beautiful gift that we give to ourselves – the gift of discovery. If we are wise, we will use this gift to explore our Spiritual Wellness.
My grandparents, Charles and Jo Pursley, are my heroes. As grandparents, one might expect them to be set in their ways and resistant to change. Instead, they embrace growth and self-discovery. They’ve tackled technology head-on by utilizing email, blogging and even Facebook! More importantly, their spiritual journey is ever evolving. They are strengthening and climbing to new heights with God each day. (To view my grandpa’s blog, click here.)
If you feel like you’ve stopped growing, it may be time for change. Do you remember the Prayer of Jabez? Jabez petitioned God, “I pray that you would bless me and enlarge my territory.” Jabez was ready for change, ready to challenge himself and ready for room to grow.
To help you grow in Spiritual Wellness, you might jump-start change in your prayer life. Consider praying with a friend, or spending more time in meditation. You can also take a long walk while praying, or pray while painting. The possibilities are endless. Allow God to enlarge your territory in prayer.
How has change helped you further your growth in Spiritual Wellness? Share your thoughts with us.
Rose
13. Jul, 2010
We always need room to grow and having enough space to fullfil our dreams. Are we planted in a to narrow pot we “shrink” like the plants in a wrong pot. – We can pray everywhere. When it’s not possible to speak out the prayer in loud words, we as well can do it in silence without voice. – We do not need change to grow in Spiritual Wellness. We can have it in happy time as well. It’s just more difficult to realize it. – Have a blessed Ascension Day, Rose
Jan-Michael
13. Jul, 2010
A good question, Angie!
2 parts as I do not know how make it just one short paragraph.
1)While I find that conscious change is hard/scary yet necessary to fulfill our true positive destiny, in fact change happens with our blessing and participation or inspite of us or our resistance or lack of participation.
I guess I am trying to say, I can change and grow or change will be done for me or to me and that will shrink my self esteem plus I may like the change or hate it but it was up to me to sieze the opportunities and take responsibility for the result.
I have been fortunate to have mostly had the good result and when the result was not good, by being involved in the process and through prayer, I feel I learned from Him how to share with others the good and the bad, that with others we may find better ways for the future.
2)My recent involvement with InterchurchFamilies.org has let me find a way that my wife and I may again celebrate Communion together in my wife’s Roman Catholic Church though I am not RC myself. It involved writing the Archbishop of Toronto who answered but asked I write also to the Papal Household. They answered but asked I write the Secretariat at The Vatican and finally a call came from my wife’s priest welcoming my participation at Communion in RC church anytime I so wished.
To ensure I could speak to The Vatican and the Bishop and the priest fully versed in their process I had contacted Presentation Ministries which sent me cassettes on the RC beliefs and processes.
This weekend I am being visited by the head of Canadian Interchurch Families to go over my story and the process that turned out so well.
Change to achieve a better spiritual life for my marriage of 37 years which was now being affected by new limitations that separated us at the wonderful time of Communion in my church or my wife’s church led me to learn of thousands of hurting couples and an opportunity to help those who want to know the procedure.
Thanks for patience of all who read my long post. I promiss to be more brief next time;)
Jan-Michael
cysradill
13. Jul, 2010
As in Donna,s post . Jan-Michael we usually learn something. Which is good. Many years ago my friends relationship broke up because of the RC. church and his being so totally different. He was Luthren and both were very stonge in their faith and so to their church. You took steps to make it work I do not think they would have know then how to write and where to in those day . 50years ago.
but it is good to know the procedure now. Thank-you and God Bless.
Cysradill
cysradill
13. Jul, 2010
Sorry Angie I also meant to say that I learn many things from your posts to. When I working and walking or what ever the Lord is always there and I do talk away to him and when something happens . Like nearly drop something or step out to fast in the crosswalk. I like to say Thank-you Lord. Because you know it was him or one of his angles that look after you. And I love learning new things and trying to do them . And in the garden now I am learning how to look after it in what they call the green way. Imagine hot boiling water takes care of the pesty weeds coming up through the brick rather the some spray like round-up .
God Bless Cysradill
jan-Michael
13. Jul, 2010
Adding to my earlier post or concluding it;
I and my wife had a wonderful afternoon talking with Ray Temmerman of interchurchfamilies.org who was passing through Toronto! Small world that as he mapquested where we live, Ray’s niece lives about 5 minutes from our house so fitting several stops in one day became easier for him and he could spend a more relaxing time with all before catching a plane!
J-M