“For everything there is a season… a time to plant & a time to harvest.” Wise words to embrace as we continue to take great strides to move forward & rebuild our lives. We’ve often heard the saying, “grow where you’re planted”. Hard to do when we’ve been uprooted from our home sweet home. Yet I’ve often found comfort & healing in the green thumb gardening of sowing new seed. The replanting & repotting brings joy to my heart when I see the wonderful growth of those beautiful blooms. It’s so rewarding to see the work of our hands, after breaking up the hard ground & tilling the land. The fruit bearing trees & green leafed stalks, are a sight to behold for anyone’s home! Although this is often more joyous than tedious, there’re moments when the work is a difficult effort to endure. I’ve worked the soil with my weary hands, as I buried my sorrow & hoped for a better tomorrow. I’ve watered the new sprouts with my weeping tears & prayed for the strength to see the beauty through the ashes. There’s a reason for this season. It’s a time to diligently work to replant what’s been lost & restore what hasn’t been forgotten. As we continue to slowly heal, let’s plant that seed which gives birth to new hope. Let’s tenderly nourish & feed this, as we lovingly water & care for it. So attentive we’ll be to protect it, as we watch it take root through the path of resistance. Then we’ll see that amazing growth that we’d never had known, if we’d never had sown, that precious seed. It’s such a splendid reflection of what we become! It’s when we finally let go & release our scattered dreams, broken hearts & deepest desires to the Lord. We place our seeds of sorrow, gifts & talents in the ground, laying it all down to the One who is faithful to gently heal, delicately mend & tenderly make us. “I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart…” our precious seed. Ecc. 3:1,2,10
