One of the many reasons that we were excited to get home from our vacation was to see how our garden was growing! We didn’t plant tons of things since this is our first year trying, but we were anxious to see if they were dead or if our neighbor had remembered to water them!
Before we even went inside the house, the six of us went to the garden plot and bent down too look at the growth of the peppers (will be picking a few later this week), the beans, the zucchini and summer squash. To our delight, we had a zucchini that was HUGE and a summer squash which was the perfect size to pick! can anyone say “stir fry for dinner”?
But as we got ready to cut into our veggies for dinner, I told the kids about first fruits… you know, in Bible times when the Israelites would give of the first things from the harvest to the Lord. As Grace thought about that concept, she got big tears in her eyes. She didn’t want to give away our veggies… she was too excited about them! In fact, she didn’t like the idea of cutting them up either…. until she tasted them! YUMMY!! First fruits got me thinking about all of life: are we really living like it all belongs to the Lord to begin with. Are we too tightly holding on to our stuff or our children that we are unwilling to give them to the Lord? Hmmm… first fruits… they are all HIS, aren’t they? What better hands to be in than in the hands of the Creator, the Sustainer, the Giver of Life!!
I can’t wait until more things are ready to be picked… maybe I will go get those peppers right now! YUMMY!
(We actually picked these on Sunday even though we got back on Friday.)
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