Joy when seed sprouts, growth, progress, harvest

- As each day passes monitoring progress and watching the seedlings grow, it’s so heart warming and hope rises, confidence increases, the zeal to do more increases. Creativity grows and begin to plan the next step.

Now that seedling are getting closer to replanting, suddenly you notice that there are some plants that look a bit different and closely knitted to the actual plants and realise that they are weeds but because they covered some of the spaces where seeds were not sprayed . The big pause, lf you try to remove weeds now you might end up taking the seedlings out too. A sensible thing to do is to just leave both to grow together until the distinction is more apparent. However during the growing together the weeds for some reason tend to get more nourishment from the soil at the expense of the seed.

It’s like that in our lives, we may have relationships that are appear to be good to us and closely linked and look like us but are leaching from us. It’s always a tough one and painful lesson to learn as well but necessary.

In such relationships we learn to fight, to live, just as the plants has to survive despite the weeds feeding on their rightful food. God allows us to go through that to grow us, strengthen us and prepare us for whats ahead.

In one of the parables of the sower a farmer planted a seed and at night the enemy came and sowed some weeds, the farmer realised it and said to the workers leave them to grow together until harvest and separate them then.

God does not allow

anything in our lives that will destroy us. He knows that we can overcome at the right time.

It was not long before there was a distinction between the weed and seed. The shape and arrangement of the leaves, the stem formation, rate of growth and the colour shade difference. Your ability to distinguish the two is rooted in knowing what you sow, it’s characteristics and its expected outcome. It is the same with relationships, you know who you are, your values, your nature, the path you want to follow. One way or the other no one can fake forever, soon the cracks will begin to show. Always go back to the fundamentals of relationships you had in the first place. It’s ok every now and then, to do an audit on our relationships and discern, correct or uproot any unhealthy relationships. It’s about timing too.

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