Snow Peas.
A couple of months a go I planted some Snow Pea seedlings, around the
mesh fence of my veggie patch. I have been waiting for the plants to grow...
which is a process. To be honest it is not the growth I am looking forward
to, it is the fruit itself... I am longing to see the fruit/vegatable
and harvest it.
I was thinking about this and working out what was it that I am looking
for. I orginally thought it was growth, then I though ultimately it was
the fruit... something that caught my eye this week was the first white
flowers.
My snow pea plants have grown well, hanging on tight to the framework
provided and growing in strength and size.... but no fruit will come unless
it blossoms. This took my breath away.
With plants... it can not produce fruit until it is mature and blossoming.
Blessings,
Akita.
6-9-08
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Ephesians 3 v 11-16
It was he who gave some to be apostles,
some to be prophets,
some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ
may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in knowledge
of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of
the fullness of Christ.
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the
waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning
and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking in
the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is
the Head, that is, Christ.
From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting
ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
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