Just One Small Branch

If you have a garden, you will inevitably been out in it and tending to it. There is the clearing away of all the ‘stuff’ that seems to arrive over the winter. Then there is the checking on all the perennials.  As with most gardeners you have lost some plants to the cold of winter. Hopefully not too many.

This now leaves us waiting for that special day that surrounds our growing season. That date in this climate is May 24^th. It is the date many wait to plant the annuals and the vegetables after the possible threat of frost has passed. I remember one year when I thought it couldn’t happen, and it did, and I paid for those plants twice. Don’t think it’s going to happen this year but who knows other than God.

Yes the wonderful season of growing and enjoying the cultivation of nature. I heard something a long, unusual a long, long time ago. I was told, all garden plants were at one time only weeds. Haven’t really agreed with that because in Genesis 1 it reads, “Then God said, Let the land produce vegetation: plants, fruit trees, And God saw it was good``. Maybe what that person meant was, all plants were wild and not cultivated.

It`s almost like kids, they need to be cultivated if you will. Nurtured, fed, trained, pruned, and placed in ideal conditions that brings out the best in them. Happened in us didn’t it? That is what happens when we are part of the family of God. John 15 talks about God the gardener tending to the true vine of Christ. We being the branches of Him, results in us being nurtured, fed, trained, pruned to be the best God always intended us to be.  Plants, us and now the next generation, all looking for the Gardener in their lives.

Something to think about.

Rob