Growth Pains

It is like a mustard seed, which, when it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.                                                                        Mark 4: 32-33

The Mustard Seed         by Nelly Bube

It can be scary at times to wander into newness of life. We like things the way they are; we are comfortable. And yet God, who loves us just as we are, works deep in our hearts and minds and nourishes the potential in all of us. 

The work of growth is not easy as we emerge to the darkness and the dirt and the chill of spring rains. Our crusty seed coverings soften and the seed inside wakens to the smell of the earth in which it finds itself -- and struggles toward the Light. It is an arduous trek at times, but the seed can feel the draw of the Light. 

Emerging into the Light, God thrusts us forward and and into the dreams God has for us, which are infinitely more than we can ask or imagine for our own selves. Because the crusty old seed covering was pretty comfortable -- down there, deep in the soil.