Seed Planting

When seed is planted in the dark dirt of the garden, it is always an act of faith.  What should come forth as young tender sprouts with the promise of producing a harvest does not always happen.  The soil may be too dry, or the expected rain may not come.  Planting is never a sure thing.  Well, there is one sure thing and that is the seed is put in the ground.   Another sure thing is that we know what kind of seed we planted.    

What is true in the garden is not always true in the living we do.  While we can talk about life in many different kind of ways, it can certainly be talked about as the process of planting seeds in the lives of those who are around us.  We do it every day.  The smile we offer to the child or the stranger may be the seed which produces a hopeful spirit.  Stopping to talk to someone even though we are in a hurry and running late may be the seed which produces a spirit of self worth.  Sharing our faith in Christ in a conversation may be the seed which brings forth new life in another seeker's heart.  We are always planting some kind of seed, but we do not always know what kind of seed we are casting into the ground of someone's spirit and neither do we know what it is going to produce.     

Whenever seed is cast into the ground, it is going to be seven or ten days before there is any sign that a seed has been cast into the dirt.  The creation works like the Creator.  Slowly.  Neither the creation nor its Creator is in a hurry.  There is a season for all things and no one understands this and works it to perfection as does the Creator of everything.  Most of the time we are the seed planters.  Once in awhile we may be blessed to see the seed produce spiritual fruit in someone's life.  It is more likely that the fruit we see produced in another's life is the result of some unknown person planting the seed.  Even as we are blessed in sharing with the Creator in such a moment, someone unknown to us may be up the road to share in the moment the seed we planted produces a spiritual blessing of life in a soul we encountered somewhere along the way.