We can plan lots of things in life but things do not always go according to our plans. We can manage our expecations and know that sometimes, well, things in life happen. This week our verse focused on Paul and the passengers on the ship in Acts 27:13-27. Before we can start scratching the soil to pull out the stones and developing fertile soil, we need to focus on clearing out the pollution of life and listen to God's plans for us.

Eva is a guest on the Smiles Show with MBR Radio. What do you crave? Let's flip the story and change our perspective.

How do you start clearing the thorns in your life? Start serving others. Serving helps to remove the confines of the world so you can start finding your way to the ground and doing the hard work.

The beginning of the episode we cover Bible verses which refer to soil (36) or ground in a couple. This helps us understand that the condition of our hearts or the soil is what enables us to bear good fruit. In other words, we have to work the soil to bear good fruit. Then I talk about someone I am working with in my people garden and how we bear good fruit.

A comparison look at the Parable of the Sower in context with "Hearing the Parables of Jesus" by Pheme Perkins. Also look at how life is a lot like going up and down hills. Life is not the perfect road going straight and even. Without God keeping us safe, we may fall harder going down hill than uphill. Let's lean into Him and make it to the harvest.

We have worked on removing the thorns (lies) and stones from our lives. Now let us work on tilling the soil in our heart and receive seeds.

Rocks in our backyard are preventing us from growing. Rocks are heavy and they are weighing us down. Time to deal with rocks. I have some ideas on how we give them to Jesus to let him carry our burdens.