I Don’t Think You’re Wacky

You will always harvest what you plant.

(Galatians 6:7 NLT)

Inside chatter is such a crazy thing. Last week, I had a funny conversation with a friend. We were having coffee when she admitted she’d been having inside chatter about something she’d said to me on the phone the night before. She went to bed kicking herself for saying something she felt was dumb and was certain I thought she was a bit wacky.

I absolutely didn’t go to bed thinking she was the least bit wacky. Quite the opposite. I went to bed thinking she is one of the cutest, nicest people I know. So I quieted her inside chatter by planting seeds of reassurance.

Friendships are like plowed open fields ready for growth. What we plant is what will grow. If we plant seeds of reassurance, blessing, and love, we reap a great harvest of security. Of course, if we plant seeds of backbiting, questioning, and doubt, we reap a great harvest of insecurity.

Indeed, today is a great day to call a friend and say, “You don’t have to worry about me having negative thoughts about you. If I need to talk to you about something, I will. Otherwise, you can rest assured I am always believing the best about you. I love you. That’s all I’m thinking. Period.”

I’ve discovered that the more love and joy I plant in others, the more love and joy I experience in my own life. But I only have that flourishing joy when I focus on God’s truth in my life. Here is a passage that would make a lovely lead song for the soundtrack of our lives as we seek to keep from becoming unglued and help our friends do the same:

Wouldn’t this be a wonderful truth to live out in our lives and spread to the lives of our friends? I want to have this kind of love and joy; therefore I need to invest in giving to others this kind of love and joy. After all, it’s what we give to others that often spreads back into our life. Indeed, what we plant is what we’ll harvest.