Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm a black thumb. I always say that if it's not human I can't help to keep it alive. :) Seriously. I follow watering and light directions exactly (or so I believe) and still anything I have planted (and I use that term loosely and if you know me well enough you know what I mean!) or anything given to me to keep alive I manage to kill off. It's frustrating.
Sometimes my life feels like that. I imagine you might be nodding your head in agreement. You know what I'm saying right? We take time to till the soil, plant the seeds, water and we wait and wait and wait and get nothing. It could be a relationship, it could be a dream job, it could be a dream, it could be just about anything. I think part of our problem may be our patience - or lack thereof. See, the Farmer knows that you plant but then you wait. The Farmer knows that you can't plant seeds and within hours and days there is a bountiful harvest. It takes time. It takes patience. Sometimes it takes setbacks and so you have to re-group. At some point, if all the conditions were favorable, a harvest comes. Where we differ from a literal harvest is this: the Farmer almost always sees the harvest and then is able to reap it. We may never, in the figurative world, see nor reap the harvest of seeds that we planted and tended to. ARG. Right? :) This is the exact reason why we cannot judge our days - and the success or "failure" of them - by any sign of harvest. We just have to be faithful planters. Quit looking for the shoots of green and just plant. Plant kindness, plant hope, plant ideas, plant whatever seeds land in your life that will take you toward that harvest you are hoping for. Take some lessons from the Farmer and get your Farmer on.
I'm a black thumb. I always say that if it's not human I can't help to keep it alive. :) Seriously. I follow watering and light directions exactly (or so I believe) and still anything I have planted (and I use that term loosely and if you know me well enough you know what I mean!) or anything given to me to keep alive I manage to kill off. It's frustrating.
Sometimes my life feels like that. I imagine you might be nodding your head in agreement. You know what I'm saying right? We take time to till the soil, plant the seeds, water and we wait and wait and wait and get nothing. It could be a relationship, it could be a dream job, it could be a dream, it could be just about anything. I think part of our problem may be our patience - or lack thereof. See, the Farmer knows that you plant but then you wait. The Farmer knows that you can't plant seeds and within hours and days there is a bountiful harvest. It takes time. It takes patience. Sometimes it takes setbacks and so you have to re-group. At some point, if all the conditions were favorable, a harvest comes. Where we differ from a literal harvest is this: the Farmer almost always sees the harvest and then is able to reap it. We may never, in the figurative world, see nor reap the harvest of seeds that we planted and tended to. ARG. Right? :) This is the exact reason why we cannot judge our days - and the success or "failure" of them - by any sign of harvest. We just have to be faithful planters. Quit looking for the shoots of green and just plant. Plant kindness, plant hope, plant ideas, plant whatever seeds land in your life that will take you toward that harvest you are hoping for. Take some lessons from the Farmer and get your Farmer on.
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