Mar 10 2011
Seeing God through gardening (2)
My late mother would save all the tin cans from the can foods that we sometimes consumed. First she would remove the labels of the cans if possible. She would then use a nail and hammer to make small holes in them. These would then be filled with soil and broken pieces of bricks or stones as our cactus pots. She would then line up the corridor of the house with her little pots of cacti of different varieties.
Under her tender loving care these cacti soon flourished. These little pots of cacti added life and zest to the drab and lifeless corridor. She demonstrated that whatever things that God has blessed us with were to be taken care of to the best of our ability and not let them go to waste.
This reminds me that no one is useless in the sight of God. If only we put ourselves into God’s loving hands and allow Him to mold us like a piece of clay into a beautiful vessel to be filled and used by Him. Just like the useless tin cans we could also be proud containers of beautiful cacti only if we allow our Master to use us. In doing so, one day we would brighten up our lives and also the lives of others just like the little pots of cacti.