Planting Seeds

This week we planted for our fall harvest.  We planted 3 cabbages, 2 broccoli plants, 2 cauliflower plants, 2 large pots of carrots and 1 small pot of carrots.  When planting the carrot seeds I took time to plant them at the right depth and dropped them in with care.  As I was doing this I was reminded of the parable of the farmer who goes out to plant his crop.  You can find it in Luke 8.  Most of us know the basic parts of this parable, how it pertains to hearing the word of God and how we should "plant" the word of God in our hearts and in our minds.  As I was putting the seeds into the little trench I had made I thought about how important my job is at Heritage CDC.  It's important for me as a teacher of small children to invest and instill in them the seeds of God's love. Even more, as a parent it is important for me to invest and instill in my children the seeds of God's love. Thank you God for the reminder this week, I love others because you first loved me.  Bless our cabbages, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, peppers and herbs as we grow them to show others that you love them too.

 

Luke 8 

4While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable: 5“A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. 6Some fell on rock, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. 7Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. 8Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.”

When he said this, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

9His disciples asked him what this parable meant. 10He said, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that,

“‘though seeing, they may not see;

though hearing, they may not understand.’^a

11“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. 12Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. 13Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away. 14The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life’s worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature. 15But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.