a garden update.

one of our friends found my medium page last week and reminded me that it exists. and because of that conversation, daniel found it and started following. (daniel, if you’re reading this, hey.) but because of this conversation, I logged on and read my last post, which was a couple months ago now.

In that post I wrote about weeding the garden and how much work there was left to do, and about the compost barrel and rain barrel and finding magnolias to plant around the borders. it was a funny and sweet thing to read.

just this morning, daniel burst through the door and said: “clara! you’ll never believe it. the rain barrel is full!”

never in my life would I have imagined or known that a rain barrel could be full after just one rain.

but there’s more than this — last week, we planted marigolds around the border of our fall garden. we planted spinach, radishes, lettuce, carrots, peas and more flowers. I don’t think either of us has ever even eaten a radish… but we planted them. we’re not sure if anything will grow, but we wanted to try anyways.

we spent the money that we normally spend on date night on seeds. we bought them at a .75 cent sale, and rushed right home to get them in the ground. we started googling and reading the back of the packets to try and interpret them, but it wasn’t until we started putting them in the ground that daniel admitted that he had no idea what he was doing and was scared that nothing would grow.

I also have no idea what I’m doing, but we figured that the best way to get no carrots was to plant nothing at all. so, the next best thing is to just… try.

daniel read somewhere else that you have to plant 600 carrots before you actually learn how to grow carrots. now you know.

we planted our seeds and turned our compost barrel and in the little light that was left of the dusky light, I prayed and reminded myself that in all areas of life, we may plant or water seeds, but God is the one who gives the growth.

even the smallest thing in my life (like a garden) can be submitted to the Lord to his care. He causes the sun to shine and the rain to fall, on the righteous and the unrighteous, the good gardens and the poor ones. how much more is this true of everything else in my life? my work, my discipleship group, my friends, my heart? God will care for them and cause the growth.

this is good for my heart to remember and trust.

trust and obey, there’s no other way to be happy in jesus

than to trust and obey.