Compost

Each year I mow my fallen leaves into my lawn, happy to have a way to dispose of them while gaining something in the process. My yard will be greener next summer with the integration of this season’s cast offs.

For years, back in the old days before mulching mowers became the norm, we bagged lawn clippings and fall leaves, set them at the curb, and sent them in exile to the landfill. Now we’ve reverted to the old practice of turning the nutrients back to the soil. The latest fashion retreats to what was formerly out of fashion.

God is ahead of the curve on this one. The Divine Gardener has long been an advocate of reworking what was once worthwhile into what will soon prove valuable. If we will just allow it.

What is falling off of you, old and spent, lifeless, dry? Social patterns, hobbies, attitudes, interests, friendships, passions and causes? What might The Lord be ready to do some distant day, having worked into the soil of your soul a preparedness for tomorrow’s regreening season, having pressed back into your soul once valued, once discarded items?

What you are shedding now may, if kept within the yard of your spiritual journey, be useful in support of His new initiative in you, in your acquaintance with His ways and His will for you. Careful what you discard beyond the Gardener’s reach. Some brown and curled leaf may soon push up spring’s lively emerald blade.

Tim Gramly
Education Pastor
SHBC
October 28, 2008