When writing this devotional, I thought I was going to write about light. I spent days trying to create well crafted verbiage about our Christian walk and being lights in a dark time. Along with that, I had written a song about the topic – but it was all so forced. The perfectionist inside of me had put so much work into something, just for God to lead me in a different direction at the 11th hour.

I was led to a piece of art by Jerry Uelsmann of a broken down house. The windows were busted out and chips of paint were falling off to create a faded texture of what used to be a beautiful home. However, as you reach what would be the foundation of the home, the base turns into roots of a tree. The roots were large and you could tell that they ran deep into the soil.

Our bible study curriculum this Summer of Jubilee is, “Deep Roots, New Leaves,” and this picture was the physical manifestation of that.

In this time, there are many problems that need to be solved, but with God our foundation is solid. We can look at things as broken, or we can look at them as fixable. We have the power to fix the broken windows and chipped paint of life without having to worry if the ground is going to fall out from underneath us. It isn’t easy. We still have to work. We still have to sweat, but God is there to hold us together while we figure it all out.

I leave you with a song I wrote here at Ferncliff. The recording isn’t perfect. My voice isn’t perfect. The guitar playing is far from professional but it is real. It is honest and it is true. In these times, isn’t that exactly what we need?

Taylor Sexton is a Jubilee Team Member here at Ferncliff this summer. Read more about the Jubilee Team here.