MUSINGS
                              "How Does Your Garden Grow?"

We’ve come through a long winter that made us question whether it would ever end. I’ve been out in the garden moving winter’s debris finding the little currant bush and rosemary I had covered have survived and are growing! Forsythia, Lenten Roses, and Daffodils have all reminded me we are indeed in a new season.

I found a few weeks ago that my spiritual garden was stuck in the ice of winter. I found a day had passed without my conversational praying because I was doing too many things. What a shock! At the same time, my brother sent me a subscription to Guideposts, ‘Mornings with Jesus’. During Covid we had encouraged our congregation to look into these devotionals like ‘Our Daily Bread’ as we weren’t able to meet together. But I hadn’t thought of them since then. There are no theological revelations to be found in them; usually a verse from scripture and four or five interesting sentences about how it applies to the author, but it focuses us to consider the Word and pray.

I missed that time praying and listening and I had Guideposts! I shared at

Conversation how having 15 quiet minutes with a verse and a focused direction helped to open the conversation in my prayers and set my day off in a peaceful and uplifted way.

So, it seems that I was dormant like the now-sprouting plants. The focus of a devotional every day in the quiet of morning was the fertilizer and water. The conversations with God are my growing in this new season.

How does Your garden grow?

Nancy Thomas