The Garden is getting hot! I do not know who much more it can take but I am getting some tasty produce! Home grown flavor is unbeatable and it reminds me that everything worth having is a product of your own labor.
People are like plants. We can grow each other just as sure as we can grow vegetables. We really do not have a choice in the matter. We are either growing or cutting down everyone we come in contact with. I we remember Jesus and live by His Word we can grow others even when they are slashing at us. We can encourage others to bear good fruit even as we are bearing good fruit. From seeds we plant into those around us can sprout works that bring glory to God.
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
(Romans 4:16-24)
Our old gals are crazy as loons. They are being broody.