It felt good to be up early with
some free time to enjoy the peacefulness of my backyard. Sitting on the deck in
silence, I prayed and meditated. As the time slowly passed, my attention was
drawn to a sparrow hopping around in a clump of weeds. The sparrow was feeding
on seeds of the plant, plucking each cluster clean before moving on to the next.
Matthew 6:26 “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store
away in barns. And yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more
valuable than they?”
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Soon it was time to get cracking
on the project for the day - picking up plants and placing them in just the
right spot around our new retaining wall. My wife and I arrived at the garden
center early enough to beat the Saturday rush. As we wandered around looking
for just the right plants and flowers, it became apparent that bees and
butterflies thought this was a great place to be as well. They were everywhere
and they didn’t seem bothered at all by us being there. It was a beautiful
site! We picked out the plants we wanted while the bees pollinated everything
in sight. Romans 14:19 “Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to
peace and to mutual edification.”
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By the time we arrived back home,
the sun was getting higher in the sky and the air was getting warmer. The
warmer temperatures meant one thing…the cicadas would be buzzing at an ear-piercing
volume, and this summer there have been an obnoxious amount of them. The
buzzing is what attracts the opposite sex for mating. Who would think such an
annoying sound would attack a mate? Exodus 10:14 “…Never had there been such a
plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again.” I think it came close this
year!
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| A cicada hitching a ride on our bumper |
Trying our best to ignore the annoying
mating call of the cicadas, the wife and I got to work. I dug the hole and she set
the plant just right and back fill around it. The project went rather smoothly
and after several hours we were finally done. We stood back and enjoyed the
fruits of our labor. Genesis 2:18 “The Lord God said, “It is not good for the
man to be alone, I will make a helper suitable for him”
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| Our dirty, sweaty, swollen hands |
It was a great day enjoying many of Gods creations...except those cicadas.
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