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Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light for my path. 

– Psalm 119:105

Seeds and Trees

5/17/2021

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“The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil.” Mark 4:26

How on earth did we get to the middle of May?  Sometimes I think the school year started last week and the next minute it seems like this school year has lasted a decade!  It’s been a year of  change, adjustment, re-routes and do-overs.  Routine and deadlines have been challenging to say the least.  We’ve all tried so hard to do right by the kids and the parents and give the kids some sort of “normal” through it all.  Some days I feel like we got it right and other days it’s all felt like a giant ball of knotted yarn.

As we fly into these final couple weeks of school I tend to see all the things I did’t get quite right or wish I could do-over.  At the end of every year I wonder if I did enough, if I reached them all, if I gave them enough joy and knowledge and desire to be great disciples and this year that worry is super-sized!  For everyone rushing to get “back to normal” and forget this mess ever happened I suppose we can’t “throw the baby out with the bath water”.  There have been great things…amazing things…funny things that have happened this year that will leave a positive impact on us all and I try to remember that when I look at the list of a hundred things I still want to cover and do before the first week of June!

The Father always seems to know when to send the right words at the right time.  As I was digging in my book bag looking for that REALLY IMPORTANT thing I wrote on a scrap of paper the size of a postage stamp, I found a quote I had written down last October.  Just because God likes to show off, it was stuck to the tiny note I was looking for in the bottom of my bag.  The line on this little note is exactly what I needed to hear as I barrel into the end of this school year.  Written in green ink, in my loopy cursive hand I read the words, “Those who do the Lord’s work are in the business of planting SEEDS not TREES.”

I am reminded that that things take time.  I’m not in charge of the whole process, just a part of it and that brought me peace; maybe we all need that little nugget of peace today.  

A Seed To Plant: Offer a simple word of encouragement to someone today, say a prayer, write a note, send a text…something to tend a seed God is growing.​

Blessings on your day!
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