Fruitfulness

Morning Prayer was on the theme of fruitfulness and the obvious point was that to be fruitful, we need to be planted and rooted in the right place--rooted in God, and watered with Living Water. This has got me thinking. Practically, I am thinking this time of year of my summer garden. Since we are at a new house this year (there was zero chance of planting last year with everyone sick all summer) I am so eager to put down roots, literally, this year. I am planning on planting herbs, raspberries and grapes this summer. I am also thinking about planting some veggies, although I am not totally sure about that. In the past, I have gone hog wild and planted tons of stuff and then...thrown it all in the compost pile in October or November. I have learned that to be good at anything, I usually need to keep my expectations small, just to take baby steps.

I would love to hear what others are planting. (By the way, I think I fixed the comments section so that anyone should be able to post comments. Let me know if you try and it doesn't work.)

Other thoughts spun off from fruitfulness: we went to a farm last night. The farmers are this lovely young couple with two young children who are renting this place. They are raising chickens and goats. As an arm-chair only "farmer" myself, I was amazed to see the chickens running around in the below freezing weather. Somehow I imagined all creatures would freeze at those temps. Also, they have two goats for milking. My kids loved it and all said this morning that they want to go back! Really bittersweet for me as I would have LOVED to buy a farm of our own when we got this house, but it just was NOT possible. On every property with land at a price we could afford, the houses were in horrible shape. The only place we could have gotten was right on a major highway and we just didn't want to take the chance with our kids being so young. But it made me wonder if maybe maybe someday we will be able to save enough money to just purchase land (no house) maybe up to an hour from here for the kids to explore and to raise mini cows maybe some sheep and grow some bigger crops like wheat and put in a grapevine. It's my farm dream. I now know that the kids would like it too. E-R said she loved "all the land". It hurts as I wanted this soooo bad, but it was just not possible. I love love love our new house, it's awesome! but I just can't kick this yearning for land. Waiting on the Lord... He has truly planted us HERE, which means that this IS the best possible place for us to be. Dear God, help me love Your will!