Really gets me thinking about all the different analogies that can be made from the germination of a seed. How each one of our lives is like a small seed. We can sit in a bag on a shelf for years without much change or benefit to ourselves or anyone else. Then by a simple change of conditions we can change altogether. We begin growing into something different, begin growing into something so much more than just the little seed we started as on that shelf. We are all different types of seeds, each of us unique with a different purpose and different conditions we each need in order to germinate.
I would like to challenge you to step back and take a look at your life. Are you fulfilling your purpose and growing or are you sitting as a seed on the shelf? What do you need in order to grow into the person you are meant to be? Do you need to be planted? Do you need water? Has your seed fallen on barren ground or in the briar patch? It is never to late to plant the seed of your life and to grow into your purpose.
Sorry if that is a little heavy for a Wednesday but it is just something that i have been thinking a lot about lately. Something i have been challenged with in my own life while i am here and i wanted to share it with all of you.
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Adam
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I love the seed analogy. I'm not sure that I have ever told you about the seed analogy I believe God gave me with Lily.
ReplyDeleteI will share now, because I think you will appreciate it. While I was grieving for Ellie and praying for another baby, the word "cotyledon" came to mind. I had no idea what this meant, so I looked it up: "the part of a seed that turns into the main embryonic leaf." I wasn't sure what that had to do with a baby, but a week or two later I found out I was pregnant for Lily.
Now I always watch her (her botanical name fits) with this in mind. How she loves gardens and animals, how she was born so early -- it was like she was unwilling to be on "the shelf." In fact, most my arguments with her arise from her trying in her imperfect way to 'get off the shelf.' She loves life and engages with it so beautifully. It was like she had already sprouted when she was born. Remember the nurses commenting on how this little 4 lb. baby pushed herself around in her incubator? It was comical, they had to put extra tape on her IVs so they wouldn't get pulled out with all the movement.
I don't completely know why I was urged to share all that with you, other than that it means so much to me!
It was out of great sorrow that God put that little sprout into my life. I think she might be like Jack's Beanstalk!
Laura
PS: the picture of your bean sprout there make me feel so excited and hopeful for a great harvest!
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