Little Seeds and Small Beginnings

10/17/2021

Let's go out and see the flowers,

Smell the sweetly scented rose!

Let's admire well-kept gardens,

Planted fields sown row by row.

Let's examine this year's harvest:

All the sweet corn that's been picked,

And the squash in all its splendor,

Or the golden wheat that's reaped!

In its full-grown state it's glorious,

But one lesson it does teach.

It was not grown in one evening,

Small beginnings it did see.

Let's examine life's slow process

And the process of the seed:

Both are tiny in the beginning,

Both potential have indeed.

Both must die before the growth starts,

But the planter tends its needs,

Always caring for the seedling,

Shielding from the worst hardships.

There are times when it is weeded,

And at other times it's pruned,

But the trial is always needed

So that it may bear more fruit.

All the months of toilsome labor,

Slowly yield the little fruit,

But if we are too impatient

We'll pull up the unripe fruit.

No one's shocked at plants' growth process,

But in life, we do protest,

"Why has God not done the labor,

If my heart He did possess?

Why am I still struggling with this?

Why does this trial still remain?

Why am I still so imperfect?

Why would God with me contend?"

But we fail to see the value

The Creator gives the seed;

He through failures sees our value

And gives grace to all who plead!

So don't fear the small beginnings,

Little seeds have slow starts too.

Let the Master Farmer guide you

Till your harvest time is due.