Lesson in Sowing

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In graduating, I get pretty choked up whenever I think about my grandpa. He was there since I was born, and was so diligent in making sure I grew up right..He sent me to school and walked me back, played with me after school (but made sure I got my homework done first). He sowed and he toiled to make sure I grew up with the right values and work ethic. It makes me wish he just got to see me graduate. Not like it's such a big mark of completion, but I feel like it sort of symbolizes the fruit of all his effort in my life. I remember in the fall when I came home one night , he asked me when I was graduating..I told him May, and was about to say, "Ah Gong..you have to be there"..but I thought better, cause I knew he wouldn't make it. But anyway, I feel like my grandpa's such an amazing example of sowing in faith and sowing selflessly. He put so much effort in raising me so that I'd pursue virtue, and live and work diligently. And I think as I grew up he was able to see me keep following that path and I knew that was rewarding for him, but still he died not knowing where I'd go or what I'd do. But I know that what he planted will stay with me for life, and it teaches me that with sowing into a person, you just have to keep putting in that effort and planting those seeds, not looking for the results. Just like with prayer, you can't see the results most of the time but you just have to keep praying with faith that it's doing something. A lot of the prophecies I get are those that encourage me to keep pressing on in faith..God tells me, "Keep praying..you can't see what it's doing, but it's doing something really big!" or "Keep sowing those seeds, you can't see the fruition, but God's coming right up behind you and watering those seeds." The biggest works a person can do in life, I realize, are done without any recognition, without anyone seeing except God. With my grandpa, he didn't know what I'd do or how I'd turn out, but he just kept sowing..for 21 years. Now that's a servant.


Though for my grandpa the seeds he sowed were diligence and virtue, but what could be so much more powerful is love. From what I've seen of discipleship that effected change, the seed was love..loving a person diligently, selflessly, and unconditionally. That's the nature of the love of God. What potential there is in a child that's raised with the love of God. One of my goals post-graduation is to begin sowing seeds of love into others, spiritual motherhood I guess. Thanks Gramps, for the inspiration.

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Linda Jo said…
i love this post! servanthood is definitely not always seen :)
May 14, 2011 at 5:06 PM
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