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Life and Death

Thought – July 25, 2014

Such are the wonders we see in our back yards during the spring and summer.  Little do many realize that what we see growing in our back yards during this time come about because something …first… had to die.

Treasures lie ahead for any who decide to plant seeds during this time.   You go to the store and check out the flower seeds, veggie or fruit seeds and you pick those that appeal to your taste buds, or their beauty appeal to your eyes.

You may purchase a package of flower seeds and go home to prepare a row for them in your garden bed.  You lightly cover them with soil and water.  Every day you go out and check for any sign of life and not long after, you see the green popping up over the soil.  Still, you do not know what it will look like until it matures.  

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Even if you planted 100 of the same flower seeds, each one will grow up and be different from the rest.  There will only ever be “one” that will look in the special way you see it.  Still, we won’t know what they will look like unless we are around when they become fully what they were meant to be.  What we do know, is that a seed has to die to become alive.

It is pretty much the same, in a way for humans.  We have a life and death cycle of our own.  A seed is planted and grows in a mother’s womb until it is delivered to the world.  From birth, we never know what the child will grow up to look like or what they will achieve.  Like the changing seasons, we know that they will come, we just don’t know exactly when or how severe or mild or how sunny and bright their life will be.  We know that each child will be unique and that there will be life until death comes eventually.  It makes you think, doesn’t it?

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What about you?  Have you ever meditated on the life and death cycle of things you see around you?  Share your thoughts with us…Jeanne Claire Probst

Life and Death

 

Life and death or death and life

Both feature highs and lows with joys and strife,

Never can tell what the end results will be

You just have to play the waiting game to see.

 

A garden seed has to die to germinate and bring forth life,

Producing a tree, or a flower, and in turn a fruit or vegetable; all to our delight.

For us to enjoy while they do live,

Indeed, such precious gifts.

 

Understandably we may grieve to see these gifts fade away

As the seasons change and they bow their heads to our dismay.

But we rejoice to know if we plant another seed in the spring

It will die and germinate and grow to be a flower, a fruit or vegetable or a tree.

 

Jeanne Claire Probst

 

 

 

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