Planting and sowing

This year my daughter talked me into having a garden. So we dug up an area and layered it with all organic ingredients. We added organic compost, and soil and layered it on top with some non treated-hay. Allergies have been terrible out here in the Northwest so it has kept me from checking my progress.

I have always had a garden and most of the time have done really well with it but busyness has kept me from outdoor gardening the last couple years.

With high hopes we cultivated the ground  on our tiny lot using almost 10 by 10 feet of space fencing off this feat with some wire fencing. We planted the best of organic seeds that my daughter got from a catalog that we started sprouting in the house a few months before. We saw a few plants look like they were going to make it but died off suddenly to something eating them. Only one survived.

Just one little sunflower seems to be beating the odds this year. It is very tiny with a lot of buds on it, kinda pathetic looking if I do say so. I figured it deserves a picture. 

The hay however is sprouting and is attempted to yield a large hay crop. Did I mention our back yard is about 30 by 20 feet in size? A little comical isn't it to have something you put your time and energy in to turn around and do something very different.

 " For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward.  If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved even though only as one escaping through the flames." 
 1 Corinthians 3:12-15
 
 Inside my house I have some tropical plants that have been blooming, like a prayer plant that sprouted on it's own with tiny little white flowers. I did nothing to make it grow-only watered it once a week. Everyday for the last couple weeks it has been blooming with strong shoots and pure white tiny flowers.

This last year has been that way for me, I have worked very hard on some things and it did not produce too much only a little, and some things that I barely assisted with grew with a vigor. In this busy life with so many demands only one thing is needed and can go farther than anything else you can do and that one thing is meeting God in prayer.

While we may not get the organic vegetables we had hope for, I learned a valuable lesson. Even though we are all still human and are always going to make mistakes, we know we have a heavenly Father we can go to to steer us back on course. 

Psalms 59:10

My God in His lovingkindness will meet me; God will let me look triumphantly upon my foes.
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Psalms 59:10

My God in His lovingkindness will meet me; God will let me look triumphantly upon my foes.
- See more at: http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Meeting-God#sthash.rvOxW0uE.dpuf

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. And you not much more valuable than they? Matthew 6:26 

Psalms 59:10

My God in His lovingkindness will meet me; God will let me look triumphantly upon my foes.
- See more at: http://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Meeting-God#sthash.rvOxW0uE.dpuf