"THE SEED!"

(“The seed of your life lives in you.” – FCSH)

Have you noticed that the seed never gets the credit and recognition of a healthy, beautiful fruit? The seed you planted was an apple seed. Hidden deep in the soil, the seed is covered, nurtured, and protected. You keep the soil moist, protecting it from drying out. As time moves, a sprout begins to grow.

The small sapling begins to grow into a tree. The tree brings forth beautiful flowers in the spring season, letting you know it is about to bring forth fruit during the latter days of the summer months. Before the end of summer, you have brought forth beautiful, red apples.

It is now late August into late October, and you pick the apple off the tree to bite into it. The juice cools your face, dripping, and the aroma delights the sense of smell, as the taste is sweet. You look at the apple and say, “You are the most perfect apple, beautiful and delectable to my senses!” Not once saying, “A beautiful seed, strong and nurtured, has brought you forth!”

The seed you planted and hidden in the earth brought forth this beautiful apple. There is a seed planted and hidden in you that needs to be nurtured and grown into bearing good fruit in your life! The seed in you is the “root of the root” of your purpose and mission in your life. A seed planted and given to you before birth, to nurture and bring forth beautiful fruit in life!

The gift of music, art, speaking, writing, communication, etcetera, is all flowers born from a seed within you! These flowerings must be recognized and nurtured to bring forth healthy fruit! Some people say, “I don’t feel I have any of these flowers within me.” I say, “When you stop and take the time quietly to look within, you will find ‘the seed’ to the flowering. The blossoming of the flower will bring forth healthy fruit when you begin to nurture and recognize the Seed of Light in you!”

With the right state of mind and pure intent of heart, you will bring forth much fruit to all who are in hunger for a better life! The seed goes through a process. When you recognize it is “the seed” that brings forth the roots of a tree! And, it is the roots that bring forth the sapling. It is the sapling that brings forth the flower, and it is the flower that brings forth the fruit! And the fruit will bring forth more seeds. With patience, you will discover, “You are a seed given in creation!”

Some people do not recognize the seed within themselves. Every time someone enjoys your love, compassion, wisdom, creativity, etcetera, which is the fruit, they are taking a bite out of “The Seed!”

“Alleluia!”

Francine C. Still Hicks

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