"Bloom Where You are Planted"

It’s planting time~finally! After an unusually wet and chilly (cold!) spring, it is beginning to look like spring planting can begin!!!

Farmers are sharing their excitement to finally be able to plant their crops (and warning of a late harvest).

Gardeners are sharing the same excitement. One local professional gardener commented on the news that he hired 17 people to make sure his strawberries were planted in that small window of time before the next round of rain came through.

Even homeowners who pride themselves in their flower gardens are excited to get in the dirt (mud?) and begin work on their landscaping.

Whether farmer, gardener, or landscaper (or even planting that one special plant in the planter on an apartment balcony), we clear the ground, carefully plant, and continue to water and cultivate our crops or flowers so that they can grow to their fullest potential!  I have a climbing vine with beautiful flowers. When it finally started to grow back this spring, I daily began wrapping the vines just right around the trellis-wanting it to grow ‘just right’.

So tell me-do we put the same thought and care into the weeds that find their way into our gardens?  My husband takes the weed-eater and whacks the plants that grow along the fence line~~but the weed-eater stays away from the landscape!

Now, let’s consider Psalm 1:3:

And he (those who have placed their trust in the creator God) shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,  that brings forth fruit in his season…

The Psalmist states that as believers who trust in the creator God we have been PLANTED by the rivers of water. We have been carefully placed in the best location to receive nourishment for growth. We have been lovingly planted and receive daily cultivating (which sometimes includes pruning!) and watering.  We are not just thrown to the wind to grow as uncared for weeds.

For this reason we can follow the old adage~BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED. God has placed you were he wants you in His landscape. He will keep the weed-eater away and will gently and lovingly cultivate you into a beautiful climbing flower…

Bloom where you are planted!

Debbie