Wisdom-Trek / Creating a LegacyWelcome to Day 1384 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomWhat Are You Planting? – Meditation MondayWisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge. Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy. Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1384 of our Trek, and it is time for Meditation Monday. Taking time to relax, refocus, and reprioritize our lives is crucial in order to create a living legacy. For you, it may just be time alone for quiet reflection. You may utilize structured meditation practices. In my life, Meditation includes reading and reflecting on God’s Word and in prayer. It is a time to renew my mind, refocus on what is most important, and making sure that I am nurturing my soul, mind, and body. As you come along with me on our trek each Meditation Monday, it is my hope and prayer that you, too, will experience a time for reflection and renewing of your mind.


 Spring is the time for planting flowers and gardens. Many of us engage in this relaxing and enjoyable past time. Today let us meditate on:


What Are You Planting?Last weekend Paula and I planted our flowers along the edge of the sunporch, in the antique planter beside the back door, in the five large pots adorning the front porch, and in the three hanging pots along the front porch. This year we planted all Impatiens since they grow well in part shade, and their flowers last all summer and into the fall. They take a while to grow out entirely, but are full and pretty most of the summer. Our peonies, which line the outer edge of the front porch, and along the old ‘fence line’ on the backside of our house, are full of buds and will be blooming soon also.  In addition to the flowers, we also planted four tomato plants, four sweet red peppers, two each of cucumbers and zucchinis, and a patch of spearmint.  We enjoyed it and look forward to reaping the rewards for our efforts.


Our efforts are an example of the Biblical and universal law of planting and harvesting. It is as universal as the law of gravity. This law is mentioned in Genesis 8:22 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+8:22&version=NLT) . As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.


Planting and cultivating a crop is backbreaking work. Ask any farmer who has done intense farming. It is not for the faint of heart, or those who anticipate instant results. Farmers persevere because they know the joy of the harvest. This emotional rollercoaster of farming is described in Psalm 126:5-6 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+126:5-6&version=NLT) :


Those who plant in tears


will harvest with shouts of joy.


They weep as they go to plant their seed,


but they sing as they return with the harvest.It does require hard work with no real guarantees, but to anticipate the harvest, you must first do the work. Proverbs 20:4 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+20:4&version=NLT)


Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.


Another fundamental truth is that you will harvest only what you plant. We will not expect corn from our tomato plants, nor apples from our zucchini plants. We expect to harvest what we planted. The same is true for all aspects of life. This concept is described well in Galatians 6:7-9 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+6:7-9&version=NLT)


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