It is Spring. The season that the land comes back to wakefulness after a long Winter's sleep. The time when there is a crispness to the air with a hint of freshness carried upon the breezes. The Lord's creations are budding forth with new life, refreshed, renewed. Buds start to appear and soon open. Leaves start to unfurl from the tight fist they were curled into as they reach towards the sky to expand their new growth toward Heaven. The flowers raise their blooming heads gracefully towards the vast expanse of the firmament above them as if in salute to their Maker, Father Creator, above.
Spring is the time of renewal and rebirth for most of God's creations. Yet their are some that do not come to life again in this season of renewal and rebirth. The harsh elements of the Winter and the droughts have caused them to not be revived. The elements and possibly age have caused some to die and not be renewed, refreshed with this Spring season. Sometimes we do not know what has caused the plant/tree to not prosper but instead to die. Some of these plants/trees we know intimately as we have helped them along or watched them in their various stages of growth while others we know merely from passing by them often. When we look upon this we are sad at this, even the passing of a plant/tree, as it is the passing away of a life that God has created.
So too, in our daily lives, we are faced with the passing of someone dear to us or someone that we know or have known in our lifetime. We do not always know why they are taken away or when they will be taken away, but we do know that at some point in time each one of us will lose someone that we care deeply about or that we know just in passing. It is a fact. Sometimes we are warned through a sickness or illness that our loved one, those we know and care about, will be leaving us soon. At other times it comes suddenly in the form of a car accident, another type of accident, a heart attack or some other surprise ending that we never could have foreseen coming.
The thing is that why our loved ones, friends, acquaintances, flowers, trees, plants, animals are with us, we should strive to tend to them in the best ways that we can. We should show them love and tend to their needs as God has instructed us to do. Father Creator/God/Jesus Christ has entrusted not only the plants and animals into our care but He has entrusted the people in our daily lives into our care as well. Tend all with love and care.
You know how when you plant a seed, you water it and nurture it. You weed it and feed it with fertilize and cultivate the soil around it so the air will get to the roots and so the soil does not compact around the roots. So to you tend to your family and those around you. From the time a child is within it's mother's womb at the point of conception that baby is being cared for, tended to, by the mother. As it grows within her she loves babe and speaks to the baby, she nourishes it with her own body. Then it is born and the nourishment and nurturing continues int he feeding, washing , clothing, teaching and loving of that child. It grows/flourishes under a loving hand. The same goes for anyone that God has entrusted into our care and lives. We are supposed to tend, nourish, nurture, love and care for them. When we do this, as the Lord asks us to do, we watch them grow and our love for them should grow along with them. They will prosper and grow if the circumstances are right for them.
Sometimes though, even with all our love, care and tending, they fail to flourish and grow. Or they may grow and at the end of a long life they leave us, or they may leave us somewhere along our life's way. Just as the plants, flowers, trees, and animals we love and care for sometimes do not flourish and they die. Or they live for sometime then die or they live a long life and then die. Death is a part of living. We all should know this. We, our self, will one day face death.
We need to be prepared to face death and be in the Lord and His child, forgiven of our sins, born again or we will be eternally separated from God/Jesus/Father Creator. Part of loving and nurturing someone is teaching them of the Lord and letting them know about Him, of his Love and message of repentance and forgiveness. If you truly love someone you will teach them of God/Jesus, His Way and Word. Bring them up in nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
1) To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2) A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3) A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4) A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5) A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6) A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7) A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8) A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Ephesians 6:1-4
1) Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2) Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
3) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
4) And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
I was led, of the Lord, to share this with you all. He blesses us in so many ways and I am thankful to Him for all the blessings, the trials and testings. Please share the Lord with those you love and with those you meet each day. The Lord was not afraid to speak to others that He met along the way and we are to do as He did, for He instructs us to do the same as He did in sharing Him and His Word with others.
Ephesians 6:1-18
