Learning from the Garden

What I’ve learned from the garden that relates to spiritual things

1. The land has to be prepared through tilling before you plant a seeds. Nothing will grow without the soil properly prepared.
2. When you plant seeds give them enough room to grow to their full potential.
3. Think ahead to the kind of seed you are planting and expect a harvest.
4. You have to provide fertilizer for growth to happen. You must feed the plants or it will not grow properly.
5.  As the plant begins to grow you have to work hard to keep weeds and grass from outgrowing the plant.
6. You will have to fight pest in order to protect your plants. Worms, squirrels, deer, rabbits, and others will sneak in to get a taste before its ready.
7. You must work hard to keep the weeds and grass out again – funny thing about good soil other things want to grow there too.
8.  It takes time, heat, water, fertilizer, and patience before you can harvest.
9. Each seed has a different time of maturation until you can enjoy the harvest – corn takes longer than cucumbers.  (But you can produce more cucumbers from one hill than corn from one stalk).
10. Sometimes you will have to get in the dirt to nurture your plants to grow – but you can wash the dirt off. 

"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, 

cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." 

Genesis 8:22 

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 

Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, 

to send out workers into his harvest field.” 

Matthew 9:37-38  

Let us not become weary in doing good, 

for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 

Galatians 6:9

Always Enthusiastic, 

Dr. Rusty Newman