Seeds

I heard Wendy Treat speak recently--- write down your seed thoughts she said... don't dismiss those little thoughts that come into your mind... acknowledge them.  Don't wait because if we wait, then later we may not remember them...
Oh how true is that?  How many times do things come into my head and I think oh I won't forget that and then when I have time to sit down and write it down I forget it...

So, I've been trying to remember to do just that.  When I feel something come to my mind I try to write it down, make note of it somewhere.  That reminds me, get a bigger purse so I can keep my small notebook in my purse to write things down...okay back on track : - ).

As I hear things or say them... if I forget them does that mean it wasn't God. 
I don't believe so. 
One time I remember feeling this overwhelming desire to write a letter to a woman I respected very much.  I wrote what I was feeling or hearing, to this day I only recall parts of it.  I mailed the letter, sometime later she saw me and told me that she received it and it was something she'd been praying about. 

Sometimes the seeds are thoughts of something bigger that God may have for someone else, but wants to deliver it through us.    Sometimes they are seeds that take longer to grow and may not even make sense or apply to our lives until a later time or situation. 
If I am seeking God, and if I am reading the word more and studying it more it seems to only make sense that God is going to drop more seeds in my mind because it has become a ready plowed land... ironically the seed will grow better with fertilizer... of course I don't mean literal manure, or do I?   

When a farmer/gardener does fertilize their crops or seeds what grows?  Manure?   No, the seed and it grows stronger, bigger and the flower is vibrant and beautiful.   I am not saying that we should allow ourselves to go places that we know we shouldn't be, or participate in 'crap' that we know we shouldn't.   What I am saying is that when the seed is planted and it has fertilizer thrown on it; it has a better chance of growing stronger.... bigger.... brighter.   

How much clearer can we see a picture when it is contrasted?
(You know like when someone prints a photo in black and white but highlights part of it in color, you are automatically looking at the color.)
How much sweeter is the smell of something after you smell the stench of something bad?

So, the next time you feel you are surrounded by the fertilizer of life.... possibly God is using that situation to help the seed of something to grow.... keep your Eyes on Jesus.