Slowly, the old man reached for a dusty package of seeds tucked securely on the shelf. It had been two summers since he had thought about planting anything. So much had happened.
It seemed so long ago that he had lost his beloved — after 55 years of walking together. Life had not been the same. The yard was unkept, and the garden was grown up with weeds. Often, he had to make himself get up because he just didn’t care anymore.
The package was brown and crisp, and the seeds sounded like a single maraca as he pulled them off the shelf. He wondered, “Could these seeds be any good? I wonder if they would come up.” He found his rusty old hoe and went directly to the flower bed. It had been his wife’s favorite spot. Resting at intervals, he finally turned up the soil and then, with hope but some reservations, he dutifully dropped the seeds in a row. He patted them into the fresh earth and turned away.
Can anything dead live again? The seeds entombed for so many months — no sunlight and no water — seemed so lifeless, like his dear one gone on before him.
The gentle April rains pattered down and the sunlight caressed the hollowed spot. He visited it often and hoped. Then it happened. The ground cracked and tiny green sprouts peeped through. The seeds were good. The flowers would bloom again.
Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” (John 11:25-26).
May we celebrate the resurrection together this Easter Day.
Faith & values
April 7, 2012
Something to celebrate
- Faith & values
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- 'Seeing' the fullness of God's kingdom
- Becoming a love letter tot he world
- Prayer is a relationship
- Majority is not always right
- In real life, mothers are leading ladies
- Life really is so very fragile
- Church briefs
- Mother is a high, honorable position
- Removing barriers
- Standing up for what's best for mankind
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