The Savage Five

As I lay in bed early this morning, I listened to all the birds singing their praises to the Maker, I prayed and asked the Lord what He would have me write about today. I got up and proceeded to open the front door to walk into my garden when an American Kestrel swooped right down in front of me and quickly flew off into the distance. I stood in awe of God once again as we have a special continual conversation that has to do with Falcons. As a little girl I loved to be outdoors.  From morning to night I would go on animal hunting adventures.  I was not one of those little girls who loved to curl up on their bed and read for hours.  As a matter of fact I hated to read.  Until the day that I started reading My Side of the Mountain by    Jean Craighead George .  I dreamed of running away and living off the land like Sam Gribley and having a pet falcon that would hunt for my food and be my best friend. The first time I saw a falcon in my area I had asked the Lord for someth

Weeds are like sin in the garden of our hearts, and like weeds, when sin entangles our hearts we need to address its presence and potential power to overrun our lives, taking captive in its wake the potential fruit bearing parts of our lives, where God desires to use us for His glory. The human heart is deceitful above all things   and is in desperate need of the pruning effect of the word of God.  Psalm 17:4 says that the Word keeps us from the paths of the destroyer.  However, the worries of life have the potential to choke out the Word making it unfruitful . If we allow it, sin will seize an opportunity in our lives just like the opportunistic qualities of the thistle.  Thistle is prevalent throughout the landscape but as a gardener manages it consistently and chooses to declare all out war on the thistle, with great resolve, then overtime, it can be overcome by the the good soil and fruitful plants in the garden. If thistle is left unattended like the sin in our own

         As I took a morning stroll through my garden today, I was reminded of the opportunistic and pervasive nature of weeds that a gardener has to face each and ever day.  Like sin, weeds grow alongside the beautiful and potentially fruitful plants in the garden disguised as something lovely or fruit bearing.      Weeds are plants with no redeeming value for nutrition, food or medicine.  They compete for water, sunlight and nutrients leaving the plants starving.  They grow at an accelerated rate and quickly produce seeds that perpetuate the next generation's invasion leaving an imbalance in the soils nutrients.  This loss of nutrients makes plants weak and susceptible to disease and infestation by insects.  Weeds are difficult to remove because many of them are able to regenerate from a small portion of the plant left unknowingly by the gardener.      Like Glechoma hederacea pictured alongside a fruit bearing strawberry plant above, sin is not only pervasive but de

I have been working in my gardens earlier than usual this season and every time I am digging in the dirt the Lord begins to talk to me about our hearts.  Our hearts are a garden where the Lord, just like with Adam and Eve, longs to meet with us and to walk and talk with us.   He is so good to me as I walk and talk with Him in my actual garden.  He conveys to me so many truths by His word. The early rains of spring are vitally important to the future growth and production of a garden.  This deep drenching, saturation causes dormant roots of perennials to expand and produce the beauty and splendor of the secret flowers whose potential energy has been stored there for such a time as this . Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.  See how the farmer waits for the  precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it,  until it receives the early and the late rains.  You also, be patient. Establish your hearts,  for the comin