Hey all. It’s time to throw caution to the wind and write.
It’s Five Minute Friday time. That moment where we link up with Lisa-Jo, she gives us a prompt and we write.
Unscripted. Unplanned. We just go for it.
Today’s Prompt: Garden
AND GO!
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I remember it fondly… And not so fondly. Working the ground, tending the vegetation of our family garden back home. I loved watching the zucchini and yellow summer squash grow, trying to find that perfect day to pick it when it was maximum size before getting tough.
I love eating the okra. But hated picking it. Okra plants make me itch.
We had lots of tomatoes for salsa, green beans that sometimes would succeed and sometimes fail depending on the aggressiveness of the bugs that season. There were peppers, strawberries, blackberries, corn, sometimes onions or cantaloupe. Ever now and then there would be a stray or random plant that we planted just because.
But before we could taste the fruits of our labor be it in homemade salsa, “summer skillet surprise” or corn on the cob, we had to work the ground.
Hours of digging, weeding, picking out rocks, laying down black plastic to keep the weeds at bay. It was dirty, sweaty work and really hard to remember why we were going to all the trouble.
The same can be said for our walk with Christ. We are in the season to work the ground. We are called to till the soil, to plant seeds and let God do the growing. Just that my childhood gardening days, it is dirty, sweaty and hard work.
But the eventual fruit of this labor is so much sweeter. For someday, we will no longer be sowing and planting. But it shall be harvest time.
At harvest, we meet our Ultimate Gardener. The one that grew us with such tender, loving care. Sending rain when we were dry, sun when we were weak.
The simple thought of spending time in The Garden with Him is what keeps me going, working the ground day after day.
STOP!
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Thanks so much for stopping by. May God bless the work of your hand for His Kingdom!
Working His Ground,
“But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.” ~Galatians 6:8 MSG
My little bro… when he was still little. With his prize winning okra at the county fair.
