Thorn bush

So I'm at a place in my life where I'm so fussy about value, because the value we place on things or people changes everything. This is not because I got over things or people but because I believe that whatever I'm gonna be a part of needs to be things I'm willing to fight for, as in fight to the core. 


Then I thought about a thorn bush, I think that I need to be willing to crawl through a thorn bush for every single rose even if it's just one. Like everything I choose to do and all the people I choose to have, they need to be a rose worth crawling through a thorn bush for, if they aren't then maybe I need to go back to the drawing board, then maybe I need to check if I should be doing that particular thing. It's passion that drives, because passions are what we are here to do.

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Laying my Isaac down

I read a book once called "When I lay my Isaac down" by Carol Kent. She shares her traumatic experience of having to have her only son in jail after he shot his wife's abusive ex husband. I can only imagine that it is a hectic experience for any parent. However the story of Abraham and Isaac is one of a voluntary act, Abraham chose to listen to God, he chose to do so in a very calm situation, no circumstance forced him into it, there is no record of Isaac being sick or anything of the sort, he was willing to give up unto God the most important thing to him.

This is so hectic for me, don't know if I'm there, but I want that level of trust, that kind of attitude that has me valuing He who gives me things more than the actual things.