Seeds

 

We are what I would call sometimes gardeners.  

As in some years we do and some years we don't depending on our summer schedule. 

This year we had planned to have a garden as we weren't traveling but then I was hospitalized and then too weak to do much so George put in some tomato plants but otherwise left the garden unplanted and untended.

Last year's bean plants came back as voracious volunteers and we were pulling up bean plants all over the yard around the garden boxes.  Those still in the box we left and now have fresh beans we are harvesting in spite of absolutely no watering or weeding. 

Why were they able to do so well untended? 

Because they were good seeds in good soil.  Fortunately when we had the time and energy last season we had put in the effort to weed and cultivate. 

I think life can be the same. 

We will have seasons in life where trials and difficulties make it so we have to run on the faith and momentum of our precious gospel efforts for a time.

Hopefully we will have been planting good seeds through intentional acts of faith and righteousness to help sustain us during those harder times.

As humans this process is so much easier for us to notice in others than in ourselves, but we must learn to be honest even with ourselves.  

President Brigham Young instructed, "We are made subject to the powers of evil, which is necessary to prove all things. We are apt to neglect our own feelings, passions, and undertakings, or in other words, to neglect to weed our own gardens, and while we are weeding our neighbor's, before we are aware, weeds will start up and kill the good seeds in our own."

The seeds we plant in good times, determine  the fruit we will have in more difficult times.