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June 6 Harvest
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How fitting that I harvested my first veggies of the season - both sugar snap peas and regular peas, along with some lettuce - on the same day that my pastor spoke about the importance of bringing our best to God - our first fruits.
As I sat in church on Saturday night, I thought of how earlier that day I gobbled up those delicious sweet peas (some of them didn't even make it into the house). After watching them grow all season, watering and tending them, it was so exciting to finally, literally, enjoy the fruit of my labor.
I have to say, the phrase "first fruits" has to mean more to a gardener: You know exactly how long you've waited, and all the work that goes into it, before you ever get a single edible thing. I was challenged by that sermon to more consciously bring God my best in all that I do.
While I never was a vegetable gardener (no sun) I really miss the connection with nature & God that exists when working outside. It's so interesting how sometimes the sermons we need to hear happen just at the right time if we are listening :)
I'm jealous! your veggies look so yummy! Gma-S would be so proud!
What a wonderful reminder of what "first fruits" really should mean to us all!
Doesn't salad taste better with lettuce from your own garden? :) I'm sure enjoying it!