A few weeks ago I shared my little garden on the dining room table here. Now those little seeds are all grown up! There are more items in my patio garden, but I didn’t want to drag them all to one place. Hopefully we’ll have some yummy produce soon. Have you all planted this year? How is it going? It was really wet for a while–then extremely hot. Kinda hard on plants, for sure. My books are available at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B007F5H0H4
This is my second year trying to grow a garden. My late husband was the gardener in the family. Now, it’s up to me. Last year my attempts fell woefully short so I bought gardening books and even pulled out a couple my dad used about forty years ago. Armed with heirloom seeds from Planter’s, a fascinating seed store in downtown Kansas City, I set out to try again. I chose heirloom seeds rather than hybrid so I can…
While I pulled weeds the other day, I thought how this act held a close parallel to sin in our lives. If we allow little sins to remain, they grow bigger and harder to remove, just like weeds. After about a half hour, my back told me, “I want to quit now. It’s too hot out here to keep this up.” “But I’m only half finished,” I said. “Keep at it.” After another half hour, I said, “Lord, do I…