In the Garden Alone

I am a gardener.  It's a task I do out of love.  While doing a few garden things last night I thought about how much like the Kingdom of God gardening is.  Maybe it's not coincidence that Jesus was mistaken for a gardener after the resurrection by Mary.

 

He is a gardener.

 

He understands gardening.

 

Here are some parallels:

• Much of the work is done on your knees
• Nothing happens unless you dig
• You can't talk a plant into growing, you have to nurture it
• Weeds are detrimental to good growth
• It takes faith to plant a seed
• When you plant you have to have expectation of growth
• There is little that happens fast in gardening
• Spending more money to shortcut usually doesn't shortcut
• Patience and faith are a gardener's tools
• What will it look like at the end is the pruning motto
• Fertilizing a dead plant does no good
• If it doesn't prosper where you plant it, move it
• Sunshine and water are essential to grow things
• Sometimes things look a little rough and ugly, if you want perfect all the time plant plastic plants.
• Insects for the most part are your friends
• Thorns have Roses and Bees sometimes Sting, it's part of the deal
• Everyone thinks they could do it better, but they won't
• Nothing happens unless someone does something
• Having a meeting about gardening is telling God what to do: Dumb!
• We never finish, it's a moveable feast, we can't ever say DONE

 

If you miss the spiritual implications to all that, too bad.  I'm not going to explain.  But if you have ears to hear you will get it.