We have a small vegetable patch, about 1square metre at the back of Elmsett Methodist
Church, which has produced tomatoes, courgettes and sweetcorn. We even have our own compost heap(s), as well as dead hedging and wildlife patches to attract a whole variety of insects.
How many of us have grown courgettes? Every year I plant out courgette seeds, and without fail they germinate. The seedlings are planted out in separate pots and eventually the plants are planted out into our vegetable patch. The bright yellow flowers herald the possibility of fruit developing. (A courgette is botanically speaking a fruit, as it is the result of a fertilised flower and contains seeds).
Our intentions are good, picking fruit whilst still relatively small, but those large colourful
leaves always manage to hide (at least) one fruit that quietly enlarges to the size of a
marrow.
This year we thought our crop rather meagre, until we had a recent spell of refreshing and revitalising rain and we are off on another growth spurt and a hunt for ever more courgette recipes!
God in his abundant generosity supplies our every need. He allows us to grow, some of us may play a small part, some of us may want to stay hidden, but God can use each one of us.
Our compost heap, made up of plants that have died, grass cuttings, vegetable peelings etc helps to nourish our vegetable patch. So, too, are we nourished by the knowledge and wisdom shared with us of those who have gone before us.
So we thank God, for the seeds that are sown, the living water that brings life, the sunshine that brings warmth and allows us to flourish.