Life is an amazing thing. We reap what we sew. We plant and tend to the garden of our lives everyday. The fruit that we collect is the what grows in reaction to what we plant. If we are always planting things for ourselves though love often gets crowded out. The seeds that we plant for the desire of things crowd out love. The seeds that we plant that feed our ego crowd out love. The seeds that we plant that feed our desires of flesh crowd out love. The problem is that those seed are that of weeds and they do not last and they do not feed the soul. With a harvest of weeds we are left hungry and still wanting. Unfortunately for so many we keep on planting more of the same. I know it may sound extremely stupid but the moment that I started planting seeds for others is when I began to feel full and satisfied. My way wasn’t working. It was a real problem, so I turned to God. I read Jesus’s teachings and thought, “Okay I will give this a try. It’s not like what I am doing now is working very well anyway.” I started to love and love hard. I flipped my world upside down. I started to give and give and gave some more. I decided that I wanted to go deeper so I started going to church again, and that was a big thing for me. I had enough of church, but I went seeking knowledge. The more I learned and put into practice the more my love grew and the more satisfied I was. I used to have a field of dead weeds. Know I have a garden full of children that I love and protect and make me feel happy. I have a garden that I tend not alone, but with my wife. I am not a rich man and I don’t care if I ever do become one. I am not famous and I don’t care about that either. I am a child of God though, and while I am not perfect I work to become a better man each and everyday. To love and put love in the world. For love can fill and satisfy the hearts of all and is truly what heaven is made of.
Mark 4:26-34
26And he said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed upon the ground, 27and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he knows not how. 28The earth produces of itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come." 30And he said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? 31It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; 32yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade." 33With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; 34he did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
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