Easy right?... just use the rototiller and work up the ground, plant the seeds, water, and whalah, abundant fresh veggies and fruits... mmmm... maybe not so easy. After you are able to quickly enough work up the ground with rototiller and plant and water then you fight those pesky weeds that you continuously have to pull so they don't choke out your small plants. Is there a better way? Rick has been reading a lot about gardening (trying to figure out how to do a better job of growing more of our own food, hence saving us some cash at the grocery store). He has come across what is called deep bed gardening, where digging by hand a section of land about 2 feet deep, working it, cleaning out all the weeds deep at the root as he goes. This is hard work, a long, slow process of digging deep to get your garden ready. Then the seeds can be planted and let the water and light do there job and not worrying about weeds with an end result of a abundant harvest.
Lets see, remember the saying for Hillside, "long, slow, deep" that we hear from Zach all the time...bingo. Is it the same as what Rick is finding with gardening. He started thinking about this after a sermon a couple of weeks ago about rototilling a garden ( I missed that one, but we have talked about it ever since). Do we just rototill our gardens so they look pretty from time to time, by saying and doing all the right things, but only spreading and hiding the weeds, which easily grow back. Thus causing us to continually have to weed, but never getting to the root and getting rid of the weed completely. It isn't something we can do quickly. It is something we will have to work hard at and struggle with to dig down deep and clean out the roots of the weeds. God's grace, Jesus' saving sacrifice, and the Holy Spirit's power living in us, help us get to that deep to the pure soil for the seeds to grow (the fruits to share with others for the glory of God). Do you have that thirst, the longing to grow such harvests? If you do, dig deep into the word and continuously pray, and "Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him." ~Psalm 62:5, and know that "The river of God has plenty of water: it provides a bountiful harvest of grain." ~Psalm 65:9.
Love Steph
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This is awesome. And it's making me think of marriages too, new and old. At the beginning of a marriage, planting those roots that will last forever. Being intentional about it so that the only way to go is be full of fruit. At the root of marraige is trust, honesty, unconditional love, etc.
Thanks for spurring us on and making us think!
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