Plants
Author: Joan Harman
August 19, 2021
How many plants have
you looked at today? Really looked. And thought about. And thanked God for them.
Plants weren't the
first in the creation. They couldn't be
for they need the sun and the water to grow. But they are the first in the food chain. And one neat biology history fact is that
most of the grains and many other vegetables that we commonly use originated in
the Bible lands.
If everyone in your
house is eating breakfast together, I suggest a Bagel and toast conversation
around how they are made, the ingredients, what those ingredients look like
when they're living, and where those ingredients come from.
What a long prayer of
gratitude that makes at the end of that meal. Thanks be to God who produces plants so abundantly.
I have two regular
plant blessings in my life. My daughter
keeps cut flowers in a vase on the kitchen island weekly and our next-door
neighbor has one of the greenest thumbs in Texas. She brings me samples of everything from her
fresh tomatoes for sandwiches to her jasmine blooms to tuck behind my ears when
we walk. And God cared enough for me
this year to sprout a wild sunflower in her yard on our side of their
driveway. It doesn't get better than
that.
Here's a simple fill
in the blank plant quiz with references in the Bible where you can find the
answers:
oats, peas, beans and
______grow
Rumpelstiltskin
spun______into gold
Christmas pudding
ingredient___
lining for a hope
chest________
Easter flowers_____
3 Texas farm crops the
fleeing Israelites missed from Egypt
our most common bread
grain____
Judges 7:13 and Ruth
1:22
Proverbs 31:13
John 1:48
1 Kings 5:10
Luke 12:27
Numbers 11:5
Ezra 7:22
Did you ever wonder
why barley is the bread grain of Judges and Ruth, and wheat is not mentioned
till Ezra?
Blessings,
Joan K. Harman <><<><
joanharmank@gmail.com
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