Nowadays I live in a flat with no garden, but I used to have quite a big vegetable garden. I grew broad beans and runner beans and black currants and gooseberries and raspberries and potatoes and probably other things that I have forgotten. With gardening there is need of hard work and lots of patience. First you have to choose the right time of year to prepare the ground. When it is a fine tilth in the Spring you sow your seeds. You have to put the seeds in at the right depth. Bigger seeds need to go down deeper than tiny seeds. If the tiny seeds are too deep they will not be able to germinate and grow to the surface. Once they are sown you have to wait for them to germinate and break through to the surface. You do not keep digging them up to see how they are doing. This is a great example of sowing the seed of God's word in a friend's heart. You must sow the seed at the right time having prepared the ground with friendship and care. Then comes the part we find the hardest. You have to wait patiently. You can do a little watering, but don't do so much that you rot the seed. Certainly do some careful weeding, it is always good to get rid of wrong ideas. Jesus promises that we will have a harvest in His good time if we do not grow weary.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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