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Topic: Garden (09/07/06)
TITLE: Emerging from Darkness
By Esther Phillips
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Now that I am above the ground, I am getting taller but part of me is still underground. I heard a human walking through the garden saying, “That one must have good roots because it is getting taller every day.” I looked around and saw that there were other plants there, too. Some of them looked like me, but most of them looked different. As time went by, the sunshine and water helped us to continue to grow. We looked more different every day. Some of us grew into vegetables, some fruit, and even some bloomed with the most beautiful flowers. The gardener came through periodically and roughed up the soil around us and chopped out the weeds that were choking us. I heard him say, “This cultivating of the plants is necessary so they will grow into what they are meant to be.”
Jesus is quoted in Matthew 13:31-32 (NIV) like this “He told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches.'"
I came to understand that there is something mysterious that happens when a seed is planted. When I first came into being, I wasn’t sure what God had in mind for me. Sometimes I have had to struggle through dark times. After those times, I found I was better equipped to emerge into the beautiful being that was my destiny. My role may be as small as peas, as medium as apples, as large as a magnolia flower, or as gigantic as the tallest tree so birds of the air can perch on my branches. Whatever my role, it will be achieved as God ordained when I allow myself to learn from the dark times.
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