Throughout the gospels, Jesus shows us and tells us that God loves and gives and forgives and then loves and gives and forgives some more. God is overflowing, overabundant, over the top, and surprising.
This season, God is surprising me with a bumper crop of zucchinis. There are already at least a dozen medium-sized zucchinis ready to pick, and the flowers just keep on coming. And all I did was plant some seeds! It’s the miracle of the zucchinis!
That’s not the only time our unbelievably generous and loving God has come up with that kind of surprise crop. The women of this church do this kind of thing all the time. All anyone has to do is plant a seed – describe a need–and the women of this church get to work on an overflowing harvest.
What other needs can the women of this church fill to overflowing? What seeds have you planted where you are? What needs do we know? Maybe that’s where the next overflowing harvest will be. Maybe that’ll be the next zucchini miracle.
This message is excerpted from “The miracle of the zucchini,” by Audrey Novak Riley from the July 27, 2017, blog of the Women of the ELCA.
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