What Seeds Will YOU Sow?

In this life, we all come with a past.  From early on, we took cues from the outside world to gauge our own worth, confidence and our placement in life.  Some of us picked up the habits or views we witnessed as children.  Habits and views that may serve us well or habits and views that may hurt us and those around us today. 

What seeds, good or bad were sown into your life?

What seeds will you now sow into the lives of your children or those you influence every day?

We have the option to take what we learned from our past and repeat it or change it.  Some things may be worth keeping and repeating and other things are worth changing.

We all have such an impact on each other and we all have opportunities to sow seeds into the lives of others.  What seeds do you want to sow?

Aside from our past, we have choices today that will either feed or deplete our spirit.  When our spirit is depleted we tend to sow fruitless seeds because we cannot give what we do not have.  It’s our job to feed our spirit what it needs in order to learn how to sow good seeds.  I am talking about seeds of encouragement, kindness, love, understanding, compassion, patience, joy, peace, forgiveness, self-control and faith.  So how are you feeding your spirit?

What we read, see, listen to – the friends we hang around with, who we get our advice from are all things that affect the maturity of our spiritual growth.   Sometimes that means we have to give up some things, change our friends, or who we listen to for advice, go against the grain and do things that may be uncomfortable, but in the end, all these important steps will lead us closer to a maturely fed spirit which bears good fruit even in time of drought and turbulence.

Sometimes the path less taken, the straight narrow path in life is hard to take because we don’t want to give up our ways, our control, and our habits.  Along that way, we may face challenges, pain and we may have to confront our behaviors and our past, but it is through this that we find our spirit promoted to a higher level of peace and freedom.  This is the place where the formula becomes just right for good seeds to grow in.  We have a choice to follow the droves of people who take the wide path, never challenging themselves to grow spiritually and be free from the bondage of our worldly vices.  The world is full of people who intertwine themselves into patterns of self-sabotage and fruitless lives.  It’s time to “grow” in a different direction.

I hope to root myself in things that will enhance my spiritual maturity and allow me to be a blessing to others.  I want this because there is true peace on the other side and it’s a powerful, bold step towards sowing good seeds into the lives of those who are affected by my actions and whom I have the power to influence.

In the process of writing this blog, I composed this poem called,

From This Tiny Seed

(copyright November 1, 2017 – Sheri LeBlanc)

From this tiny seed, my spirit grows

Each passing day, my seed sows

What goodness can it sow today?

Will it plant its roots or blow away?

If it roots itself in loving ways

Then peace is mine for all my days

And even in the Winters frost

My kindled spirit is never lost

Because my roots are deep with hope

In barren drought my soul does cope

I need not grow alongside the vine

Where common fruit intertwine

And fall to death one by one

Caught in the webs the spiders spun

In the field of joy my seed did sprout

As my shaky stem stirred about

And all that pass in front of me

Will stop and pause at what they see

For once I was this tiny seed

Who didn’t know what I may need

Till the Sun took hold of earthly sky

And watered my roots as clouds passed by

The rainbow formed above my leaf

And my roots began to grow beneath

When Heaven spoke its call on me

 My tiny stem became a tree

Rooted deeply beneath the soil

My fruit was good and did not spoil

My branches stretched beyond the sky

To hungry souls I could supply

My nurtured spirit produced a seed

That bared good fruit for all to feed

In years to come and years that passed

My tiny seed - a fruitful tree, forever, at last.

Be fruitful – plant good seeds,

Sheri