New Life

Yesterday, my sisters and I had a blast planting seeds. Since the prices on food are getting kind of atrocious, we decided a couple of years ago that we would do some gardening. My elder sister has gone into it really enthusiastically, and I always started with my sisters early in the year just about as enthusiastic, and ended up almost not caring. But, as a present for my birthday, my brother gave me some seeds. So now I have a reason to be interested in them!

I thought that I’d put up some pictures of them… although their not very interesting right now! But it’s the first stage, and soon I hope to show you the next and the next and the next!

That’s my thyme… it’s sitting right next to me, on the sill. Soon I’ll have all of my plants next to me.

That’s the lovely peppers. I love peppers! I hope mine will turn out well! (Sorry about the mess on the table! I was making cookies.)

Those are going to be snapdragons and petunias. I hope they come up too, because I love flowers!

And this is my wonderful basil! It’s actually called dark opal purple basil! I’d like to see how they come up, because last year we had a huge batch of the regular kind, and it was lovely; we could just go out any time and pick some off of the plant!

I hope you liked the pictures! It’s was great fun to be able to plant something, and know that, most likely, something very soon will come out of the ground. But it did remind me that I have very little to do in the whole job of their growth. All I have to do is make sure they have enough and not too much light, and keep them well watered. Once they get to a certain point, I will have to do more, but if you think about it, I don’t really have to do anything extra hard, or extra ordinary.

I just looked up in the Bible something to go along with this whole post. I looked up the word “seed”… there are a lot of times that word comes up! I’ll quote a few of them. Genesis 1:11:

“Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.”

1 Corinthians 15:37-38:

“When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.”

Ecclesiastes 11:6:

“Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.”

1 John 3:9:

“No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.”

By all these things, we can not only see that God is the God of the Creation that He made ages ago, but also He is still in the same business of creating. Since we are born again, we too belong to the ideal of creation. Our creed is Life. We don’t go about in a dead world anymore, but walk on a shining mountain of life! And we are like the little seeds that I planted yesterday, who have newly found that wonderful, powerful breath of Life. Some of us are farther along, and others are still just beginning, but let us not forget to grow. Ask God for His water, for the Son-light that He gives to us so freely. Sometimes, He gives it to us, and we don’t take it in. But look at the seeds, and the roots of the plants and the leaves—they take it up without question or hesitation. And why should we be so different? Let Him in, and let the growing begin!

 

Shalom