Pruning

I've been down for a couple of weeks. There were lots of little stupid things, but one thing that I was struggling with the most. After my last photo shoot, this 'gift', as I've called it,
was starting not to feel like a gift at all.Instead, it was feeling like something I truly love doing but will have to work hard to be any good. I was looking at it as black or white...either I am great as is or not good and need a lot of work.
I should know better; I'm a color gal.

In some quiet time reading yesterday, a verse I had heard plenty of times spoke to me in a new way...

"'I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.'" John 15:1-5

I have been given a gift. I am bearing fruit. And God is the one that will prune me so I can bear greater fruit.
I just need to accept where I am right now.
God does. He always welcomes us as we are.
I LOVE that about Him.

All this chatter about not being good enough is about me and where I want to be with my gift. But God is using me now, right where I am.

Prune away, Big Guy!