There is something about working with your hands that is just so soothing! Today I went to visit a friend and we decided to do some gardening. She has a new home with a HUGE back yard and in that yard are 6 raised garden beds (4 3x3' and 2 3x 10 boxes..give or take) and she and her hubby tilled a 4x8' bed on the side for corn.
We dug, tilled and hand planted corn and pumpkins today and it was so relaxing! The weather was perfect, overcast but warm, no wind.
She's 'giving' us a box to plant in so we can grow some veggies and then we'll get together to garden and harvest all of our produce as it ripens.
There is definitely something to be said about working with your hands, actually doing the work to prepare the ground, planting the seeds to grow your own food. Not much of it has started really popping up yet, but as it does, the anticipation of 'reaping what you sow' becomes almost..euphoric I think. God used reaping and sowing, good soil and bad soil, harvest, et cetera as examples to us of how to live, how to care, the proper state of our hearts, how to reach others. I love the simple things God uses to help us understand His word, His heart for us. We cannot comprehend the things of God, but he gives us practical, relevant parables that we can relate to in order to help us grasp the simple truths of His character.
God has blessed my friend and her family so much, with a beautiful home to house their beautiful little family and the amazing yard for the kids to play in and the great beds to grow their food in, and our friends in turn are blessing us with room to grow our own food in and the friendships that grow from working together! I'm so excited about watching all of our work pay off and can't wait until we can use some of the fruits of our labor to have a big, yummy family meal with them!
We decided it might be worth leaving one of the raised beds empty just so we can have dirt to play in, being as soothing as it is, with 5 kids, 5 years and under between the two of us, we just might have to have a mud pie mommy date!
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