From the Pastor

Sowing Seeds of Love

       Verne and I planted the first vegetable garden of our married lives in the spring of 2010. We were especially excited about the potatoes we planted and so lovingly cared for throughout the season. Autumn arrived and well, the harvest just wasn’t what we’d been hoping for. We decided that our soil wasn’t the best so, in the spring of 2011, we put time and effort into improving the soil. We planted more potatoes and, once again, while our harvest was better than the previous year, it really wasn’t what we had hoped for. I gave Verne a book on raised-bed gardening at Christmas so, as spring approaches, we’ll be busy reading up on making more improvements. Since the cucumbers and zucchini I planted at the other end of the garden produced an overabundance (which isn’t hard to do with a just a few of those plants !), we are determined to figure this out !
      What isn’t hard to plant and grow – also into an overabundance – in life is what happens when we sow seeds of love. The prophet Hosea encourages us to “plant goodness, harvest the fruit of loyalty, plow the new ground of knowledge.” Author Max Lucado writes,