On our family vacation, I was blessed to watch this totally not God related video.. Love gardening as so often the lessons about the Kingdom learned here are profound.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqkpifoEUfc&t=525s

The key to fruitful tomato and squash plants is….  AIR… lots of room around the plants, especially at the base of the plant…

The parallels are profound.  In plants, many leaves and lush greenery communicates to our minds healthy.   BUT the reality is that all those leaves actually an environment that is often deadly to the plant.   Powdery mildews and blights abound in this dense canopy.  The flowers, hidden beneath the leaves, often go unpollinated which means no fruit or low fruit yields.

Overcrowded lives are very similar.   A fruitful life requires room to hear from the Lord, it requires windows of quiet, windows of time for meditation, time to study the Word so the seed of God can pollinate our hearts and lives and the fruit can follow.

Something to think about perhaps????

Blessings Saints!  We are back online now that our family vacation time is over.   I have had time to pray and meditate on the next steps.

I feel an urgency to “hide God’s Word in my heart” and to read through the entire Bible before the end of 2020.    So we plan to listen to scripture 45 minutes a day either via a website like Biblegateway.com or by reading out loud as a family.  I am highlighting what stands out as we go and then going back through privately before bed to copy out key passages and meditate on them or write notes in the margins of my Bible. Perhaps there are others who would like to “join us” in the Spirit and share the highlights here of what you see each day or each week.

This week we are starting with Jeremiah and then we plan to do Ezekiel.

This will build up unity in our community and grow oneness in our thinking as well.

Easy steps:

1. Listen to scripture for 45 minutes per day, 5 days per week
2. Underline and highlight as you go
3. Review what you have underlined and either copy or write notes in the margin

This process should get us through the entire Bible before the end of December 2020.

So for anyone who has ever thought reading through the whole Bible is something they would like to do, this is a perfect time to share the journey with others.