This Morning I smell like Basil

     I finally made it into my garden....as usual it  was planned but not for that moment, oh well I got a lot of work done. It looks a little better. As I was working, harvesting, pruning and pulling weeds, sweeping up after myself, I thought of something I wanted to share with you.
     In the spring I found a plant growing in a bucket of all places. It had gotten a little rain and the plant was thriving. It was in a zip lock and it was unlabeled. But I could tell that it was some sort of a squash, so I carefully found a place for it in my garden and planted it. It thrived, at first I thought it was a que-ball zucchini  so I picked a few and cooked them up. But I also gave a portion of one to the chickens and the skin of that squash turned orange. Ooops not a zucchini but I had a pumpkin growing in my garden. Now, you need to know that I am not fond of pumpkins, they trail everywhere, they need lots of space and they don't care what they trample in the process of getting to where they feel is the best dirt and sun...(I am sure an application is lurking around the corner, but not for now.) But this plant that was growing in a bucket, of all the seeds in the bucket this was the only one growing in these spare conditions. Now, in a variety of locations throughout my garden I have these large orange orbs thriving at least 10 at last count, not counting the ones eaten prematurely. So I guess we will have pumpkins this fall :].
      But the bigger application is this; We are planted where we are, we are all, each one of us scrappers. That lone plant growing in a bucket. Each one of us could list reasons why we shouldn't be where we are, or better yet we could come up with a list of obstacles we have had to overcome and those that loom ahead. But we have been planted where we are; and we are also often unaware of the lives we are touching, where those we touch will land and also be fruitful. So don't despair, when that unidentified plant is growing (eventually it will be identifiable), and it seems to taking your energies into directions you hadn't planned, and most of all you are not confident your life is making its mark on anyone. Trust Him, trust the garden He has planted you in, the space you need, the quality of the soil as well as the exact amount of light...trust Him. You will be fruitful in places you could never have imagined.
     I love you allllll, and excited to be doing life with you

So you ever wonder why you have no room for your spices in that one cabinet. Well we found the answer. Cause you haven't been hanging them on your fridge in little tins and making room in that cramped cabinet for important things like Gee or Soy-Free soy sauce. Yea I have posted and our fridge looks like the best christmas tree ever.

I have just finished making comments on many of your bloggs and as I went back to check to see if they were there...they weren't.

I did try to comment on your posts I guess that must be my next tutorial.

Thank you for all your posts.

I am just about ready to go to bed but I wanted to post something unique I heard this morning. The pastor was bringing us a message from Ephesians and told us that there were two things that Paul spent his time writing two things; first what God has done and second who we are because of all God has done...Paul in Eph. 4:1 entreated us to walk "worthy" of the calling  with which we have been called....After today's preaching I see, feel and understand my position in Christ differently ... Colossians reiterates the fact "for in Him all the fullness of deity of dwells in bodily form and in Him you (each one of us !) have been made complete....

how short sighted we often are, I am so quick to condemn myself, and I am sure I would be better off a year from now if I thought of myself in the same light I think of my grandbabies or my kids. I love each of you and them, I delight in the lives you are living, the goals you are pursuing...each one of you; Hannah (and Jeremiah) in raising children committing your life to teaching and training them in Truth. Andrew (and Jen) how I delight as I watch you making a new life, a new home, a new family. Abby (and Jeffrey) as you pursue you passions in taking your love of learning to students, giving them a vision of a greater world than they could ever imagine, and David (?) as you pursue Him, as you seek to know and do His will I pray that you would find great delight this year as you speak life into the lives of others, as you bless many with your passion to sing....All  that each one of you do brings delight to my heart and in much the same way delights Our Father in Heaven.

Blessings on your week.