Growth

As I sat looking out at the garden,( as I do when I can),
I have been enjoying a tub planted with many different types
of bulbs each flowering in succession.
Fulfilling their own (or Gods) internal plan for them.

Yet when we planted them they were dry, drab, dead looking
bulbs, full of promise for the spring, but not offering any glimpse of
their potential. But with faith in the promise of what they would
deliver, we planted them, with trust and hope.

It was not our hands that watered them, it was not our actions
that warmed them, and not our thoughts that made them shoot,
grow, and burst into glorious colour, that gladdens all who see them.

As we look to appoint Gods gardener for St. Martins it is perhaps similar.
We provide the environment for growth, the church building.
The soil in which to prosper and grow together, its people.

But it’s the Holy Spirit that waters us, and warms us into growth,
towards the aim God has for us all, to be fruitful and to flower,
each in our turn, to fulfil Gods loving plan for us all.
To grow is to change in response.

May God continue to bless us.

Phill.