SPREADING OUT

 Can you tell from many of my post subjects that I spend a great deal of time outside in my yard?  I had much rather be digging in the dirt that scrubbing toilets.  Previously, I have given you the saga of transplanting rocks.  Though not completely finished---a large part of this project is finished.  The interesting thing is---I keep finding rocks down in the dirt as I dig.  And these are not native rocks--they are rocks someone bought and for some strange reason, I find them all over the yard---most buried--but some on the surface.  


New Bed of Transplanted Lilies-they will eventually have annuals in front of them and a rock border.  The rocks to the left by the fence were all "transplanted" from the yard.

The yard will be an on-going topic and project.  Any gardener will tell you---you never really finish---there is always something to do and some new project looming on the horizon.  My latest project has been organizing the lilies.  There was a huge bed of lilies beside the back patio---a variable hodge podge that had been ignored and taken on a shape of its on.  Lilies grow from bulbs and these bulbs reproduce by growing new bulbs.  They begin to spread out as the bulbs do their work of making more lilies.  Most of the time the beds become thicker as new lilies emerge, but those bulbs will also begin to grow new lilies quite a distance from the bed.  How do those bulbs get so far away from the original bed?  My guess is a bulb gets cut in half by a mower or a spade and is dropped  away from the bed.  If the soil is conducive to lily growth--before you know it they are springing out of the ground.  They are spreading the beauty of the lily out of the confines of where you wanted them growing.  I have a yardman who helped me recently transplant those lilies into a uniform bed.  The question becomes--how long will they stay within the confines of the bed?  When will a lily show up in the middle of the grass?  Invariably it will happen.


As I thought this over, I realized Mother Nature was the original missionary.  We will cover this one more time tomorrow, but did God not teach us through nature how to spread out and multiply?  When I think of those bulbs producing new bulbs, I am reminded of the great commission.  Go forth and spread the Good Word as we are instructed in Matthew.

"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations,"

Matthew 26:19

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  1. This is such a superb analogy, Lulu! Might we all, like the persistent lilies, spread the good news throughout the world. Blessings!

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    1. Those lilies of the field are amazing!
      Blessings, Martha!

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