Seems to be a modern thing these days to engage in something 'organic.' Gardens are being planted all across the nation and churches are even beginning to realize there is something profoundly spiritual about preparing the earth for new life. Seeds are a must in the process which even non-gardners like myself learned from an early age. What we all struggle with is that in between time from planting to harvest. The seeds are literally being buried as if dead in order to produce new life. The miracle is that God take over and completes the process.
In our devotional readings today brother Oscar Romero knew something of this as his life went through a process of being buried to this world and grown anew in Christ. His words we would do well to remember in this season where Christ bids us yet again to come and die, so that we might truly live.
"No set of goals and objectives includes everything. That is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted knowing they hold future promise...It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest."
Unless a seed falls into the ground and dies : it cannot bear fruit or bless others' lives.
Dying so that we might live...honored to be in this faith practice with you!
Jeremy
Welcome to the conversation! For as long as our own discipline will allow, I hope to use this resource as a forum for prayer and reflection for the community of Perdido Bay United Methodist Church. We'll be working through Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals as our daily devotional guide. Since we're beginning the journey on Ash Wednesday, the hope is that this will be an additional venue for us to pray together throughout this holy season.
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