Green Thumb

GREEN THUMB?

Have you ever seen a gardener’s green thumb?

I haven’t yet. I tend to have a brown one.

A brown thumb will the dry brown earth comb.

No weeds will escape from a brown thumb – none.

A brown thumb plants seeds and seedlings. Green plants will come.

When this gardener is working, you might hear her hum.

She’s planning for harvest and thinking yum yum.

She knows that blessings from the Lord will soon come.

It takes a brown thumb to grow flowering mums.

A brown thumb divides plants to share with someone.

How do you clean your well-earned brown thumb?

Scrubbing and washing dishes helps some.

I also tend to have two green and brown knees.

I don’t intend for this to happen to me

but each year another pair of jeans

ends up sporting green and brown stained knees.

It’s so much easier to weed down on your knees.

You can pull out the tall grass and little weeds wee.

You can listen to the bees

and grubs in the soil see.

When you’re done with the weeding, you’ll be pleased.

Take a moment to stand back and look, see

your hard work paid off and thankful you will be

for being able to get up off your knees.

A brown thumb and green knees are a sure sign

of a dedicated gardener like me.

Next time you’re at the nursery, make friends

with those who sport brown thumbs and green knees. You’ll be pleased.

* * * * *

You and I were fearfully and wonderfully made

for on the 6th day of creation plans were laid

to create male and female,

to be born without any ails.

When sin entered in

so did aches and pains.

Sin was the original cause of pain.

It has been said there’s no gain without pain.

Gardener’s know this to be true

for at the end of the day

when they finally sit down to survey

they creak and snap and have a few aches too.

So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:27

Cursed is the ground because of you;

through painful toil you will eat of it

all the days of your life.

It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

and you will eat the plants of the field.

By the sweat of your brow

you will eat your food.

Genesis 3:17-19

The herb garden here at Rainbow's End.

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