Apr 03 2011
Seeing God through gardening (3)
I grew up in the 1960′s when we didn’t have TV in our home. I would spend hours looking at the little cacti that my mother planted grow in size, length and height or just multiplied in numbers. I would mentally take note of the mother cactus, father cactus and the baby cacti. Often these plants reminded me of married couples starting their families.
Some cacti multiply quickly while others multiply slowly would never ever multiply at all. I am reminded again how fruitful or fertile some couples are. After a short time of marriage they would be having one, two, three….children, just like those fast multiplying cacti. However some are like the slow and steady cacti, which take years and years to multiply while some never have children at all after years and years of marriage.
Whatever it is, I continue to thank God for his blessings in our lives and learn to be content even with one, two, three, four, five or….none. Our Maker knows best and would always give us the best.