Daisies Gone Wild!

It started as a fluke really- I had tomato plants that didn't get planted. As they sat in front of my house I walked by and quickly planted them in the front flower garden. They turned out to be tomato plants from the Amazon. They took over an entire section of my flowers and sprouted tomatoes like crazy. Four small plants produced so many giant tomatoes we couldn't give them away fast enough.

Fast forward a couple years to today. The entire garden has become a competition among plants to see who can grow the biggest. I don't know what's in the soil there but everything grows Texas sized in my front garden. The tomatoes are again showing off, the pumpkin plants are way out of control, jalapenos plants are showering us with peppers, the watermelons are making a run for the lawn and the daisies, well the daisies have gotten so big and so full they have enveloped my hanging plants.

We kind of laugh about it now- how big everything seems to get in front of our house. Maybe its because I pick up the hose pretty regularly and make sure everyone has water, maybe its the perfect amount of morning and early afternoon sun followed by shade, maybe its the constant weeding I do, maybe there really is something special in the soil there.

And maybe, to draw the simple analogy, all these factors should impact our fruitfulness as well. Watered by baptism. Luther considered his baptism daily. Think that this daily baptismal watering had anything to do with his fruitfulness? And what about our time in the Son? Ever do that? Spend time in prayer or meditating on the Word? And what about weeding out the things in our life that choke out time for the things that really matter? How good are we at that?

I was raised in great soil- parents who loved me- still do I think. Raised in a church that taught the important things in life start with faith and grace and love, gifts from our God who gave us the fruit of salvation. We should all be growing like crazy in faith, but are we? We should be producing fruit one hundred fold- does that sound like us?

It's never to late to get after it and get growing, its okay to be a late bloomer and then produce fruit. We were planted here for just that reason. So bloom where you are planted, be a shining plant in God's great garden.

Won't be long till we have tomatoes galore at our house- hopefully with a watermelon or two and a few giant pumpkins. The fruit of the vine will be fun to harvest. In the meantime, it is fun to see our garden grow. Maybe God enjoys looking at His garden as well- planted in His soil let's do our best to produce fruit for Him. See you plants in the Son this Sunday!

Blest Regards,

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