Dan WillisChief Inspiration Officer (CIO), Speak Out Media · Starting into the next chapter!

are you being buried or planted? #motivation #growth #jesus

24 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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A speaker reflects on a sermon about death and new life using a flower on a windowsill as a starting point. The core idea: being buried means finality, but being planted means you're underground for a reason, heading toward growth and fruit. Reframe what feels like burial as planting instead.

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We've got sun. It's looking like it's definitely going to be a beach day today, which I'm pretty happy about. Um, I was looking at my little flower that I bought, put on the windowsill, and just listening to the sermon that I was listening to this morning talking about death and new life. And one of the things that came to mind was being buried And being planted are very similar things. The big difference between the two, of course, being when you're buried, there's no life anymore. It's gone. It's over. It's done. But when you're planted, you still go under the ground, but it's for the purpose of growth. It's for the purpose of new life. It's for the purpose of becoming something new and bearing fruit. And I just thought, man, what a small thing where you can feel like you've just been Buried. But maybe, just maybe, instead you're being planted. Anyway, have a great day.