Encouragement
The grass is not greener on the other side. How do I know??? By past experience. Before I was saved I spent my life hopping fences.
This is not a look how bad I was note, this is a someone needs to hear this note! It can be as simple as getting another job or as hard as a relationship. Hopping fences can get you all tripped up. I remember once in high school when I was literally hopping a fence I got my shoe lace got and I fell over the other side and I ended up on my back with my foot all the way in the air at the top of the fence... I am thankful it was a short fence! I was in a little bit of pain from that...but that was no where near the pain I felt from hopping the imaginary fences in my life because I thought the grass looked greener on the other side....
I was looking from my fence at that grass, tall, green weed free, cool and refreshing on bare feet. I looked back at my grass and saw all the weeds and the dry spots where there was dead grass...sure a lot of the issue with my yard was my fault, so what over the other fence was a lush yard ready for me...all I had to do was leave my yard behind. Looking only one last time I would hop the fence and... wow the grass was great and my grass as I looked back began to wither and die...Just in time! I got to the green grass right before my grass dried up and died. What a pain that would have been if I was still there...all that repairing, Work Work Work! Not now...I took off running bare foot in my new yard and man was it great I thought about my old yard less and less the more I ran. But I looked around at my new yard and the Tall shade tree I had in my old yard was not in my new yard, in fact there was no shade in my new yard. And the swing I used to spend so many hours swaying back and forth on was no where in sight. I ran and ran some more, there has to be some shade and a swing some where! There was no shade no swing and when I looked back to my old yard it was wasting away even my tree was dying , in the far distance I could see that someone was looking at my yard...did they want to buy my old yard? I looked at my new yard again...I frantically tried to dig in the dirt to plant a new tree...but the soil was only a few inches deep then it was all clay and rock....This couldn't be! It looked so perfect when I was on the other side. Then the rains came and I stood without shelter freezing cold and all alone. No swing no tree, now the yard began to flood and I stood sopping wet and broken staring at my old yard. The sun came and my old yard perked right up, the tree was full of life and the swing was gently swaying in the breeze. Man my old yard looked great. My new yard was a nasty mud pit and I was burning in the hot sun. I dropped to my knees and I screamed " How did I not see!" It is obvious now that everything looks good from the other side, but once you dig into it, it's not as good as it once appeared to be...
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