Imagine A Tree
Monique Kettle
Imagine a tree that is
without branches: no
life, no fruit, everything
around it looks like
death. What would you do
with that tree if it
were in your yard? Most
would get rid of it.
Now imagine that someone
had decided to tend to
it, water it, plant
beautiful flowers around
it and fertilize it. It
would then start to
blossom: a branch, then
green leaves and fruit,
all due to someone
nurturing it.
I was a dead tree who
most people would have
chopped down, but the
Lord saw me as someone he
could rejuvenate. He
started to water, sow
beautiful seeds and
fertilize my heart.
My name is Monique
Kettle. I am 30 years
young. My addiction was
gambling. It made me so
crazy that I lost my
business, my home, my
car, my storage unit, my
integrity, my hope,
myself, and my
relationships.
In Haggai 1:6 I am
described, “Ye have sown
much, and bring in little,
ye eat, but ye have not
enough, ye drink, but ye
are not filled with
drink, ye clothe you, but
there is none warm, and
he that earneth
wages earneth wages to
put into a bag with holes.”
That is truly the woman I
was. I was brought to me
knees through my
behavior in all
occurrences. I knew I
could no longer go on as this
woman because I am having
a baby and the curse of
addiction had to be
eradicated.
As 1 Corinthians 16:15
states, “When I was a
child, I spake as a
child; but when I became
a man, I put away
childish things.” Today I
am a new woman of Christ
and through that I am
able to “Love thy
neighbor as thyself”.
Before now I was unable
to love myself, so no
one around me was being
loved either.
Today I am as Jeremiah
17:8 says, “For she shall
be as a tree planted
by the waters, and that
spreadeth out her roots
by the river, and
shall not see when heat
cometh, but her leaf
shall be green and shall
not be careful in the
year of drought, neither
shall cease from
yielding fruit.”
I would like to thank the
Lords for my salvation,
my family for their
undying support, and my
mentors and teachers that
loved me as my own
family would. I would
like to give special
thanks to Pastor Tim &
family. God Bless
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