Something New is Popping up!

Something New is Popping Up!

When the snow melts and things begin to grow, I never know what’s going to “pop up”. Every spring is a surprise!

When the first snow after I moved here melted, I was somewhat dismayed to see that no one had bothered to plant anything in the areas by the driveway door or the front door. They were vacant plots of yucky brown sand with a few weeds, inhabited only by two bushes-one on each outer corner.

Since I don’t have a natural “green thumb” like my dear friend Sue, who’s yard ALWAYS looks like the cover of “Better Homes and Gardens”, I headed to a nursery for some ideas.

But their ideas did not fit my budget! Prices on perennial plants are high in the spring! So I bought a few annuals to fill empty spaces and waited until fall. When nurseries want to deplete stock in fall, bargains abound!

So every fall I have purchased several perennials at a couple bucks apiece. I plant them, pray over them, and wait to see if they pop up in the spring. Some do; some don’t. But I’m not out hundreds of dollars if they don’t survive.

This type of gardening has led to a menagerie of colors, textures, heights, fragrance, etc., and sometimes I have to dig up and move things because they don’t appear to end up where I thought I planted them. Almost every spring, things are off-centered or crooked or out of place.

But I didn’t realize that many critters underground were the actual gardeners. Moles, voles, chipmunks, and squirrels all work rather hard at attempting to obtain what I have yet to achieve: the cover book garden that is visually pleasing.

The moles in Northern Michigan have decided my yard is a great place for family reunions, so they’ve been busy for three years now, moving stuff wherever THEY think it should go.

The squirrels have re-planted my sunflower seeds into my pots of citronella and parsley.

The chipmunks put peas into my petunia pots; so Im growing a new variety I call peaunias or petpeas. God only knows what they will taste like!

I never know WHAT’S going to POP UP or WHERE!

Every day is a surprise! God is like that, too! Sometimes He moves us around, other times He plants us where He wants us. Sometimes we feel a little off-centered; sometimes perfectly stable. But we must remember during those shaky times that He PROMISES HE WILL NEVER LEAVE US OR FORSAKE US.

But God is a GOD who doesn’t sit still! He is always DOING! And many of the works HE DOES, He accomplishes THROUGH US. It’s WHY He gave us His Spirit to dwell IN US.

So BE READY for whatever pops up in your life! It might be messy. It might be pretty. And don’t take offense, but yes, there might be a little fertilizing needed also. Surrender. Submit. Commit. Be WILLING.
God wants to accomplish MUCH through YOU. So get ready for dirt, rain, fertilizer, and exponential spiritual growth!

FOR GOD IS DOING A NEW THING in YOUR LIFE!

Proverbs 3:5-6
Isaiah 43
Revelation 21:1-7; 22:12-14