Digging required!
I started pulling all kinds of lovely things from my vegetable garden. Now mind you, I’m not “Mr. Greenjeans” by any stretch of the imagination but it is very fun to put seeds in the ground in the beginning of May and eat a bunch of tasty stuff in July. I feel so organic. I feel so empowered. I feel so green. I feel part granola. It’s just a little garden this year but already I can see a bigger foray into raising vegetables next year.
Perhaps we move on from cucumbers and green beans to zucchini and some corn. It hasn’t been without its challenges though. Mostly due to my own ignorance/stupidity. For example, tomatoes don’t like to rest on the ground and unless you rig a contraption to hold up the heavy branches the bugs will be enjoying a nice salsa! Or, how do you know when a carrot is ready? Really you can’t know until you dig at it and perhaps sacrifice a couple for the sake of the bunch. I’ve already wasted three due to my hastiness. I just can’t wait!
The real fruit of a carrot is usually buried so digging is required. In our lives, it’s the abrasive digging that often times will reveal the real fruit of our lives. God’s not as interested in the surfacy fluff that we try to put on but rather the condition of our heart. The abrasive things, the challenges in our lives tend to dig past the fluff to what really lies buried beneath. The stuff of eternal value! In Phil. 3:8 Paul writes that he considers the stuff on the surface with its pretty appearance to be filthy trash compared to the new relationship that he had with Jesus. It’s my desire that compared to knowing Him and loving Him with a serious heart, everything else would just sort of be minor on the radar of life.
