A couple of months ago, the landscapers pruned all the rose bushes on the property where I live. Wow, people were so upset. The guys actually cut the bushes down so it looked like they would not survive.
Well, now the little stumps have new growth on them. It is slow, and I wonder if they will be big enough by late spring to flower. But they are growing.
That is like the scripture that says the tree will be pruned, the dead cut out, and new grafts and new growth. I see our church like that. At first, what is perceived is death, not growth. But we all know that growth comes after pruning.
And now I think we are in the growth of beginnings.
— Sammi Fernandez
