To die I must

This season of love is also a time of dying a thousand deaths... These days I feel like I have to die a thousand deaths before I can move on to another stage in life.

I am reminded that the seed must die in order for the plant to grow. Strength comes when one can lay it all down again - build an altar of sacrifice before God. Indeed, this lesson is not and has never been an easy one; but it is a necessary process, til the day when I truly die...

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