Stupidity Clause

February 8, 2010 by Rieshy


We bought our present home for a few reasons.
  1. It had a dining room large enough for our dining table, which is large enough for our family of 9 to eat together- which we do every day.
  2. It was in our price range.
  3. It had a row of large White Pines growing along the back fence.
  4. Oh, and did I mention it was in our price range?
The second Summer we lived here bagworms attacked the row of pines. The crown of the center tree was killed. It looked like a giant had taken scissors and lopped off the top of the tree. Very ugly.

Amazingly, one of the lower branches twisted and twined itself, over the course of the next 5 years, and began to grow straight up. A new crown. The pine is beautiful again; you can only see the damage if you look very closely.

I was reading Romans 8:28-26 last night. It seems to be a "stupidity" clause. I'm grateful, because a lot of the struggles in my life can only be attributed to my lack of smarts. Even though I may have to walk through the consequences of my stupidity, God can twist and twine the silhouette of my life into a beautiful shape. A shape as beautiful as any newly crowned White Pine.





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This post was part of Steady Mom's 30 minute Challenge. The total? 20 minutes and 42 years of stupidity.


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13 comments:

Kim & Dave said...

What an encouragment the Word of God is to us isnt' it?

I love that idea.

Leslie said...

Amen! I love that scripture, and your trees are a beautiful illustration. :)

JessieLeigh said...

How beautiful! Thank you for sharing. I would dearly love to see a picture of that amazing tree... :)

Rieshy said...

I was going to try and photograph the tree- but rain, sleet, snow (sometimes all three at the same time) have discouraged me from making the attempt. I'm ready for Spring.

Sherry @ Lamp Unto My Feet said...

Love the sound of your tree and illustration! God is good even through it all! :D

Unknown said...

I just found your blog and it's great. I love your humor!

Melissa, Multi-Tasking Mama said...

One of my favorite verses for sure!

Sharon @ Hiking Toward Home said...

Boy did I need to read that today! Thank you for posting it.

Anonymous said...

thank you for that note of encouragement!

Hen Jen said...

Beautiful! Love thinking about your tree's new crown, now! :)

se7en said...

Stunning post. I just love it!!!

Anonymous said...

That was really beautiful.

Our dining room is an office! We eat in the kitchen and I often think of moving.

Jen said...

What a great post and it's so encouraging. It kind of makes it easier to take good risks when you know that even when we make mistakes that God has our back.

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