Category — Spiritual

Continuing the story of my garden, you can read about planting seeds, I was so excited to see that it really worked. If you plant seeds, you will get plants, and what grows will be what you planted. I found corn seedlings growing where I planted corn seed. I found zucchini seedlings where I planted zucchini seed. Each tiny plant may have looked similar to the others in the early stages but as they grew, they took on the distinctiveness of their seed characteristics.

The plants that grow from the seeds planted, when they bear fruit will produce what was planted. Truth: You reap what you sow.

Don’t be misled. Remember that you can’t ignore God and get away with it. You will always reap what you sow! Galatians 6:7 NLT

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Last year I planted a garden for the first time, and there are many things I learned from that garden, both in gardening itself and spiritual truths for life.

You should probably know that my history with plants is well, not good. I have killed every living plant that I have ever had indoors, (partially due to lack of sun, but also I’d forget to water them and basically they would have to fend for themselves, which always resulted in tragedy), and I found that what grows best for me outdoors is weeds.

I have several planter boxes with a sprinkler system that had been neglected by the previous owner. The sprinkler system had leaks, bad valves and I wasn’t sure if the timer would work. I replaced the valves, (keep in mind while it is pretty simple, I am learning as I go) I put in a new drip/sprinkler system (all the above ground parts anyway) and found the directions for the timer online.

After finding all the flaws in my work, i.e. things popping off and water gushing as a result, I finally had a working sprinkler system, timer and all. Most importantly, I had the element of watering now in my arsenal.

So with this project complete, it was time to plant. I tilled the soil and put the seeds in the ground. Corn, carrots, onions, zucchini, squash and cantaloupe, I was going to have a cornucopia! With seed in the ground and water supplied, I set about the business of waiting.

Within about a week or two, an eternity for me, I began to see tiny plants of various kinds begin to peak their way from the soil. If you plant seeds, they will grow.

He sleeps at night and is awake during the day. The seeds sprout and grow, although the man doesn’t know how. Mark 4:27 GWD

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Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

She Who Kneels Before God Can Stand Before Anyone

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A couple evenings ago I was at the church with some friends preparing for Easter Sunday service. It was my birthday the next day, and someone suggested we go out for ice cream and celebrate when we were done.

We continued on with our preparations, and at the end of the evening we collected our things and headed out the door. Once we had all gotten in our vehicles, I realized I had no idea where we were going. I looked down to dig out my phone, and when I looked up again, everyone was gone, the parking lot was empty! It was like someone yelled fire and I didn’t hear them.

I sat there for a moment trying to decide what to do, and who to call that could tell me where to go. I called the one person who would know, and couldn’t get through. It was my birthday and I was left out. At that moment I realized what it might feel like for God when we do things for him on our own, when we “go about his business” and don’t always include him in it.