I received this letter from my cousin after his dad (my uncle) who was a farmer died and it made me think about change and how hard it is to try different things and much easier to only do the same old thing………..

“In the parable (Matthew 13) Jesus tells of the different places that seed is sown.  Some ground is not good at all for the establishment of a crop, some of the land is marginal and some of the land is good and fertile.  But the man doesn’t stop sowing according to the ground conditions, like most farmershe plants where he can, knowing that there might be lttle or no cropin some of the places, but if no seed is put down, it is a certainty there will be no crop.  The eternal optimist of the farmer.  And, of course, some places yield nothing but in other places the yield is all a farmer could hope for.”

“Over the years, Dad farmed quite a few different farms with a wide variety of soil types and levels of fertility.  Some places he knew he had a pretty good chance of getting a good yield, like the field north of the grove at home.  Other spots like the north end of the 120 where there was a good chance of the crop drowning out were less likely to do well.  But Dad planted all the fields - the low spots and the hills - the weedy spots, the rocky spots along with the choicest areas.  No seed-no crop.  If it was planted, then there was a chance it would produce.”

I find myself at times only wanting to plant seeds in the choicest areas and if I can’t find the perfect spot, I won’t plant anything.  This parable is good for me to remember.  I came from a long line of farmers who know that you plant many seeds, care for them the best you can and hope for a bountiful harvest.

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