March 21, 2022
BLESSED ARE THEY
WHO DO NOT SEE,
YET THEY STILL BELIEVE
Saw a Zen saying, “The seed never sees the flower.”
Wow!
I added in my own thought, “The writer does not see the
reader – most of the time – 99,999 times out of a 100,000 times.”
Most books over 10,000 sales are a good deal.
Yet, the author, he or she writes on.
Who am I writing for: me or she or he?
Me!
Yet it does help to have an audience – better, a reader in mind.
Words are seeds….
Planted in hearts ….
Earth….
Formed by God’s hands – sculpted into me and you.
The parents who slave 2 jobs at times – and sometimes
more – while working - don’t see their kids in college having a great
time – feeling free – enjoying a great basketball game – screaming – happy –
running onto the court – pizza afterwards – a beer – fun – joy – yet if they
saw all that would they still see all their work and slavery – that it was all
worth it?
Of course ….
Okay, better they see graduations.
So the Zen writer was saying something significant when
she or he wrote, “The seed never sees the flower.”
That’s life 101.
We don’t see where our money in the special collection in
church goes – but we still take out our wallet and make that extra donation.
We pray – we sing at church – we reflect there Sunday
after Sunday - knowing – faith sinks
down deep into the soil of our hearts – like a seed.
Yet we pray seeds – knowing faith increases without our knowing
or seeing it happening. Didn’t Jesus say
something like that a long time ago?
We write words – seeds of black ink on white pages or
screens – knowing some of them will sink into the unconscious of others.
We know that. We just know that.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2022
Thought for Today
“What can I say?
It’s Spring.”
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