[Jesus said,] “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how” Mark 4:26-27.
I planted a vegetable garden this year and I’m so proud of it. But for all my care and attention, I’m not the one who makes the garden grow. God does.
Through the miracles we call light, water, earth and air, God is transforming the tiny dry seeds that I so hopefully put into their little pots last March into a bounty of beautiful, delicious, nutritious vegetables. All I have to do is tend the garden and harvest its riches, while God, through nature, does the rest.
Yes, God quietly brings forth abundance every day in our gardens and in our lives. Everything we have – our gardens, our food, our families, our money, our lives, everything – comes from our endlessly generous and loving God, who is always at work in our gardens, in our lives and all around us.
This message is excerpted from “Who makes my garden grow?” by Audrey Novak Riley from the June 28, 2023, blog of the Women of the ELCA.
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