A Walk in the Garden

After going for a walk this morning I watered my garden and came across some little things.

The PEAS! Paeter's Peas & Pasta is happy to announce that the peas are on the way. Now I just have to figure out the pasta part.

As I looked further I noticed that there was moisture on the plants. Without the water the plants would soon die.

Ezekiel 34:26 - And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.

Each droplet, like a small blessing, may be small, but together in the right amounts, they lift us up, they perk us up, they help us get through the hot day, the intense heat. Each little droplet has its part to play to help sustain life - but it has to be absorbed to do any good, to perk up the plant. Do we look for and accept the many little blessings that God provides?

While looking over the plants, I found a lightening bug on one of my bell pepper plants. Now, someone has been eating on my tab when it comes to my pepper plants and I haven't been able to figure out who the culprit is. The leaves are getting a bit chewed up. So, when I saw the lightening bug, I was rather interested. Lucky for him, I figured he wasn't the party at fault for I have a "shoot first, ask questions later" policy right now. As I watched, I noticed he was actually seeking out moisture on the leaf to drink. He didn't have much to work with, but it was satisfying his thirst.

After scanning the vegetation for any other potential threats my eyes fell upon something.

On another corn plant I found this

Psalm 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

This little fly has more than he can accept! (that is my pinkie finger by the way)

Matthew 7:9-11 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Here is one my of cucumber flowers. It looks rather vibrant and alive - that is because it is connected to the vine.

One of my "summer squash" flowers

An interesting part of bringing forth fruit is that the flower dies.

We are to stay connected to the vine to bear fruit just as a branch must stay connected or die. However, "self", like the flower, needs to die to allow room for the fruit, for the character traits and qualities that God wishes to develop in us and for us to be effective witnesses for Him.


John 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Photographs were taken by a Cannon Powershot G5, 5.0 MP