Today 6-5-2023

Romans 8:25 EVS "But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience."And now we wait! Today's verse is about hope and how to wait with it! The plants and seeds are in the ground, and now we wait for them to grow. You never really know how your garden will grow but we hope that come harvest time, we will have a wonderful crop. As we put our backyard garden in, we hope that what we planted will grow to where we can enjoy the fruit of our labor. But it doesn't end by just putting the plants or seeds in the ground.  We need to spend time watering, weeding and caring for them as they grow. Gardening is a lot like sharing Christ. We plant the seeds, we pray for them, we try and take care of them and let the Holy Spirit be our guide. We won't really know how the planting of the seeds will turn out but we hope they will! We can't rush the move of Christ anymore than we can rush the growth of our plants in the garden. We just put our hope in what we do not see and wait patiently for it. The question for today is "are we planting seeds of Christ"?, I hope so! peace, tom