TheWritePath

     A parable is like visual teaching of spiritual truths, told as an allegory, using everyday illustrations to help bring the message to life. In the Parable of the Sower, Jesus is teaching that the kingdom of God is received at various levels within the human heart. While the seed is symbolic of the word of God, and the ground is the condition of the heart. “He who has ears to hear, let him hear” is used, if I remember correctly,  over 240 times in the Word, so put your spiritual ears on as Jesus tells the Parable of the Sower,  “Behold, a sower went out to sow. And it happened, as he sowed, that some  seed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and devoured it. Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth: immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away. And some seed fell amount thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it and it y...

           ANYONE THAT KNOWS ME knows I love plants. When space allowed I had as many house plants as garden, both vegetables and flowers. I believe they add so much life and beauty to your yard and home, for me personally caring for them is both physical and emotional therapy. Working in a garden can lift the heaviest load from a troubled heart.     I had one special place in my home I called my summer room. It was filled with plants, even the pictures on the walls, and decorated with wicker furniture even the wicker coffee table had magazine and books about plants. I spent many hours there reading, lost in thought and praying.  It was a place much like my porch swing, where I could go to be alone with the Lord, to be refreshed and ready to start my day or perhaps to put the cares of the day to rest.  Somehow the flowers and plants seemed to help put me in the right frame of mind to listen to what He might be speaking to my heart....