These tiny starts are going to be luscious full peonies!
And these small green starts ......
Are going to be graceful white calla lilies.
One of the purposes of writing these thoughts on "paper" is to speak to my grandchildren as they grow up. Right now they are tiny starts and so very adorable and precious. They melt my heart as they unknowingly reveal their personalities and hearts. All that is important to them is eating and playing right now. Their delight is to find raspberries or blueberries on the vines to eat, even though it is November or February! Or to hunt for "George" (my mom's name for the garden snake). Or to collect BBs the boys have shed across the pasture and lawn as they play war. They love Jesus, and He is as real as you or me. No doubt or worry or trouble clouds their minds for they know they are loved and protected. But we know they have to grow up and face life. So we pray and trust Jesus to grow them strong and faithful.
Even though these 13, with another couple on the way, and 4 in heaven already, are just little starts, God is at work each day "feeding" and nurturing them. Who knows from these tiny starts, what God will do with their lives? Their roots underground are being strengthened and fed with love and faith, discipling and training, mostly through their parents' faithfulness and commitment to Jesus Christ. One day, and very soon, they will grow up to be beautiful and fruitful, just as God has created them to be. "How awesome are Your works! ...Come and see the works of God; He is awesome in His doing toward the sons of men...Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for my soul." Psalm 66. It is God who works for our children and grandchildren, and we declare His glory to the nations! We pray our grandchildren's great delight, now and forever, will be to worship God and sing praises to His name, to bless His name before all peoples. "Certainly God has heard me; He has attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me!" Psalm 66.
So in reality, it is God who is faithfully committed to growing these tiny starts, guiding and directing their paths. It is His mercy or lovingkindness, His "hesed", that grows our grandchildren to sing His praises. Our part is to keep our eyes on Jesus. He will not turn away our prayer. He will not give us stones for bread. He will answer. Our grandchildren will stand and declare, "Come and see what our awesome God has done!" K. C.
