Spending time in my plot at the Houston Christian Reformed Church’s Community garden does more than feed my family. As I work the soil, interact with the other participants and watch the miracle of growth my soul and mind are fed as well. I am always amazed at how interacting with the natural world teaches me so much about my spiritual life. There are so many metaphors that help me understand more clearly how God works in this world and how I can better imitate Him and His love for people and the rest of creation. Today’s metaphor is the marvel of how God can take a dry, shriveled up seed and turn it into a beautiful, life giving plant bearing its fruit in season, and how I can participate in that by placing it in fertile soil, adding water and keeping the weeds at bay.
Lord take this dry shriveled heart of mine and teach me how to care for the soil in which it is planted, bring me to your living waters and help me keep the weeds of sin and hopelessness at bay so that I too can bear fruit in season. Fruit that brings glory to You. Amen.
