Cycles

From Volume III of Life Is a Garden Party,

available via CreateSpace or Amazon.

 

CYCLES

Spring is a time of sowing

seeds that will start growing

as rain and sun causes them to sprout

enticing the life within them out.

You see, in each seed is a miracle

planned that way from creation for all

to again recreate

what God did create.

Born in the dark womb of earth

this sowing of seed gives birth

establishing roots below

and green growth which above ground shows.

Dependent on the weather

determines whether

these seeds will grow

fast or slow.

Countless days and weeks go by

then eventually these seeds vie

for the attention of the grower

as the seeds bear fruit or flower.

A flower within a seed!

A miracle indeed!

Then the flower becomes a berry or fruit

or vegetable or seed fed through its roots.

What an awesome Creator is our God!

That a seed germinates within the sod

and will thrive though survival is hard.

It's like each seed can't help but give God laud.

It's now time for harvesting,

also known as reaping,

with another miracle continuing

as vegetables contain nutrition.

Some seeds are saved for sowing

to ensure a new harvest growing.

Provision for the future

each little seed ensures.

Sowing and reaping -

a cycle worth keeping,

producing daily miracles

that from the earth each year grow.

* * * * *

Miracles. Everyday occurrences

that richly blesses and enhances

our daily lives though often overlooked in our busyness.

Even often taken for granted, we'd probably confess.

Do take a minute right now to thank the Lord

for everyday miracles often ignored.

A man scatters seed on the ground.

Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up,

the seed sprouts and grows,

though he does not know how.

All by itself the soil produces grain -

first the stalk, then the head,

then the full kernel in the head.

As soon as the grain is ripe,

he puts the sickle to it,

because the harvest has come.

Mark 4:26-29

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