Pastor Tom's Community

Every morning and evening, I check my garden.

I need to know what is thriving, what is surviving, what is striving, and what is fading away.

I fret over the dying plants and give them every advantage I can think of.

Eventually, I sometimes have to declare them dead and move. 

I found a scrap this morning to encourage me. I wrote it seven years ago:

Two of the plants I thought would die are showing signs of life. I will continue to water them and pray over them. The others are looking pretty good. I have a pile of money and a truck load of time in that vegetable garden now … so I am going to KEEP INVESTING some time each day. Lessons for life from the garden of hope.

As a pastor, the executive director of a community benefit organization, a coach, a friend, a business owner, even as a writer, I know that life success is about the success of other people and that our part is making investments.

But, if we are going to give value and add value to others, we must become more valuable ourselves.

No investment is more powerful than time. Invest in things that matter.

May we be wise in how we spend ours today.

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