Grow Where You're Planted
by Nikki Tafoya
I often get frustrated because I don't have as much space as I would like. Our house is small and every nook and cranny is packed - tightly! We don't have a garage to store "stuff" in or have any room to use as "cold storage" for food from the garden such as potatoes or carrots. There is no place to dig any kind of a root cellar. There isn't enough space to keep dairy animals. And so and and so on. I could take up more of our lawn (I am not a big fan of manicured lawns, and I do plan on invading into the lawn eventually) for gardening, but then I would need more space to store the food! Do any of you ever find yourselves in the same situation?
I find myself daydreaming of owning five acres. I know what the house would look like, how the garden would be layed out, where the hen house would be....
I also find myself not wanting to invest much (such as fruit trees, berry bushes, etc) into this home and yard because I am so eager to move to bigger space (which is financially impossible, not only now, but quiet possilby forever). Then I read this verse:
"He who works his land will have abundant food, but he who chases fantasies lacks judgement." Proverbs 12:11
It gives no specifics to the size of the land. It just says to work it. It is my job to work the land that God has already given me to the best of my ability without holding back. It is lack of good judgement on my part to reserve my best for what may come - for my fantasies. It gives me encouragment not to hold out for "better" but to put everything I can into what I already have. And some how, that seems like enough. I have new plans now! I am going to plant apple, peach, and plum trees, raspberries and chokecherries as the Lord provides. Maybe I'll turn our front yard into a very mini-orchard! But I'm not going to do nothing with what God has already given us.
I find myself daydreaming of owning five acres. I know what the house would look like, how the garden would be layed out, where the hen house would be....
I also find myself not wanting to invest much (such as fruit trees, berry bushes, etc) into this home and yard because I am so eager to move to bigger space (which is financially impossible, not only now, but quiet possilby forever). Then I read this verse:
"He who works his land will have abundant food, but he who chases fantasies lacks judgement." Proverbs 12:11
It gives no specifics to the size of the land. It just says to work it. It is my job to work the land that God has already given me to the best of my ability without holding back. It is lack of good judgement on my part to reserve my best for what may come - for my fantasies. It gives me encouragment not to hold out for "better" but to put everything I can into what I already have. And some how, that seems like enough. I have new plans now! I am going to plant apple, peach, and plum trees, raspberries and chokecherries as the Lord provides. Maybe I'll turn our front yard into a very mini-orchard! But I'm not going to do nothing with what God has already given us.
What can you do with what you already have?!!!
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