Life is a Garden Party

Friday, July 10, 2020

Grow


Grow

A tiny seed planted in a peat pot
to grow under a heat lamp, not too hot,
and sprinkled with water wet
will sprout with two green leaflets.

In a few weeks this seedling
will need careful transplanting,
then will daily mature under the sun
and from a needed rain that weekly comes.

By inches it will creep
and soon blossoms will greet
in a yellow array
imitating the sun's rays.

Bees will unerringly seek
these pretty blossoms which greet
as this plant now matures,
though hardship it endures.

Yes, buffeted about
by wind and/or drought
it grew despite
life's unknown plights.

For its life is filled with hardships, whether
from too much sun or from stormy weather.
These hardships will harden the plant to endure
and most likely a sweeter harvest ensure.

On summer afternoons the plant will wilt
as the sun over the horizon tilts,
but the plant will survive
for its roots keep it alive.

This plant that started life as a seed
now produces enough to feed
ones family through the months of winter
as it soaks in the goodness of summer.

This seed grew
with life anew
for inside each seed is a miracle
waiting to be let out. Grow little plant, grow.

* * * * *
And so it is with us
as we grow in faith and trust.
We mature through hardships
for hardships equip us.

One day our hardships may another encourage
as others see us prevail and take courage
as our roots have grown deep
in God's Word, which we seek.

God's Word assures us that God is with us,
and in us, and will never forsake us.
We are assured that God loves us
and through His Son has forgiven us.

Hardships are meant to refine us,
as we learn about God's faithfulness,
and in the end, we find, teaches us
to give glory to God who blesses us.


His delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.
Psalm 1:2-3

Be strong and courageous.
Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged,
for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.
Joshua 1:9

I pray that out of his glorious riches
he may strengthen you with power
through his Spirit in your inner being,
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
may have power, together with all the saints,
to grasp how wide and long and high and deep
is the love of Christ,
and to know this love that surpasses knowledge -
that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:16-19

God has said, Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.
So we say with confidence,
The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
Hebrews 13:5-6

Though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief
in all kinds of trials,
These have come so that your faith -
of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire -
may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory, and honor
when Jesus Christ is revealed.
I Peter 1:6-7

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