This is the
weekend Kim and I will fix up our yard. It’s going to take some time and some
work for sure. We’re not sure why we have so many brown spots and bare patches,
but our backyard has a case of the uglies.
So tomorrow
morning, I will run out to the hardware store and pick up an extra rake and
some grass seed. Probably a lot because I’m one of those guys who sorta kinda
over does it. But just sorta kinda. Not!
Kim and I will
roll up our sleeves and rake and then I will run the spreader over the yard in
hopes that The Seed will take root and grow before the birds and rabbits feast
on it and before our dogs dig it up. Hopefully! That’s the plan, anyway.
Seems like we
put a lot of faith in The Seed.
Something so
small that will take root and grow into something beautiful, something we can
admire and enjoy. Doesn’t matter if The Seed is a grass seed or a flower seed.
The seed is tiny, a speck, and we put a lot of faith in it that at some point .
. . days, weeks, months, years . . . something beautiful and useful will grow
from it.
That’s Faith,
folks! No better example I can think of. To look at The Seed and imagine the
flower! Yes, that’s faith!
We, each of us,
work with kids. Doesn’t matter if we’re teachers or parents. Doesn’t matter if
we’re coaches or custodians. Doesn’t matter if we’re cafeteria workers or
administrative assistants. We work with kids. What we plant within them will
grow. It might take days or weeks or months or years, but something will grow
within them.
We might never
see the outcome, the product of our labor. We might never see the flower that
comes about from The Seed we plant.
But . . .
We plant The
Seed “in hopes” of something good that might result, something good that might
happen- for them, for us, for the world.
Because it isn’t
calculus or government or anatomy or a free throw or how to cut a board or set
a brick that we teach. Those are only the means by which we teach.
No, we plant
Seeds of kindness. We plant Seeds of patience. We plant Seeds of humbleness. We
plant Seeds of discovery and inquiry and curiosity. Those are the best Seeds to
plant.
And again, we
might never see the results of The Seeds we plant. We can only imagine and hold
tight to the belief that what we plant, The Seed we plant, will give fruit to
that kid, our kid, those kids . . . each other. We hold tightly to the belief,
the faith, in The Seed we plant will bring forth kindness and gentleness and
humbleness. And The Seed will make that kid, those kids, our kids, and
ultimately each of us and our world a better place. So . . . what Seeds will
you plant today? What Seeds have you already planted today? Or tomorrow?
Something to think about . . .
Live Your Life,
and Make A Difference!
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If you like to
read thriller/mystery, check out:
Book One of the Lives Trilogy, Stolen Lives:
Two thirteen
year old boys are abducted off a safe suburban street. Kelliher and his team of
FBI agents have 24 hours to find them or they’ll end up like all the others-
dead! They have no leads, no clues, and nothing to go on. And the possibility
exists that one of his team members might be involved. http://tinyurl.com/Stolen-Lives-J-Lewis
Book Two of the Lives Trilogy, Shattered Lives:
Six men escaped and
are out for revenge. The boys, recently freed from captivity, are in danger and
so are their families, but they don’t know it. The FBI has no clues, no leads,
and nothing to go on and because of that, cannot protect them. http://tinyurl.com/Shattered-Lives-J-Lewis
Book Three of the Lives Trilogy, Splintered Lives:
The FBI knows a
14 year old boy has a price on his head, but he and his family don’t. With no
leads and with nothing to go on, the FBI gambles and sets up the boy and his
family as bait in order to catch three dangerous and desperate men with
absolutely nothing to lose.
The Lives Trilogy Prequel, Taking Lives:
FBI Agent Pete
Kelliher and his partner search for the clues behind the bodies of six boys
left in various and remote parts of the country. Even though they don’t know
one another, the lives of FBI Kelliher, 11 year old Brett McGovern, and 11 year
old George Tokay are separate pieces of a puzzle. The two boys become interwoven
with the same thread that Pete Kelliher holds in his hand. The three of them
are on a collision course and when that happens, their lives are in jeopardy as
each search for a way out. http://tinyurl.com/Taking-Lives-J-Lewis
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