Rooted Reflections Ed. No. 10

🌾 Rooted Reflection | Edition No. 10 | August 5, 2025

“What you are rooted in determines what you will bloom into.”

Last week was full.
Productive, yes. Busy, absolutely.
But also... hard in places.

Some things moved forward. Others let me down.
I carried both progress and disappointment.
And in the middle of all of that?
Life kept showing up.

Kendall is back in the house.
We ended the week visiting The Garage, our local car museum — and it was such a simple joy watching him light up over vintage dashboards, fast cars, trucks and even some tractors.
He worked beside the guys in the heat this past week, helping move 2,000 straw bales, driving everything from the side-by-side to the fuel truck.

He didn’t overthink it. He didn’t question the effort.
He just jumped in—learning, laughing, living.
And I caught myself thinking...
“I want to see life like that again.”

I want to trust the process.
To step into the day with curiosity instead of control.
To believe that the work has purpose, even when the outcome doesn’t go the way I hoped.

Because the truth is:
God doesn’t waste the hidden places.

“And I will give you treasures hidden in the darkness—secret riches. I will do this so you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, the one who calls you by name.”
— Isaiah 45:3

That verse stopped me this past week.
It reminded me that some of the richest things we’ll receive in this life don’t show up in the spotlight.
They’re found in the unseen work.
In the slow healing.
In the quiet perseverance.
In a fuel truck driven by a wide-eyed 11-year-old on a hot summer day.

The treasure is often tucked into the places we didn’t choose—
but God did.

Reflection Prompt:
Where in your life might God be revealing treasure in the dark—not through ease, but through endurance?
What would shift if you trusted that the richness is already being planted?