Planting Seeds

As Part of our Ash Wednesday and Lent Preparations, we started a little prayer garden.

We gathered: 

1. a disposable turkey roasting pan

     (less expensive than anything from the garden center)

2. some soil (we would have dug it up from outside…but it’s frozen

3. a few rocks from our landscape (they are buried in the bottom for drainage)

4. some moss from the Wal-mart in the fake flower and candle section.

5. sticks and rope from the yard.

6. 4 seed packets from Wal-mart 20 cents each!

We made a BIT of a mess putting this all together but it was fun. (and besides...God made dirt so dirt won't hurt!)  The kids enjoyed it!  (even though it would have been easiest to dump the bag of dirt straight in the pan…  we made the work last and go around by scooping it out one cup and two half cups at a time… it counts as math since we had to keep track of our fractions to make it fair!)

We each planted one seed today and we get to add a seed everyday after we spend time in prayer and do something good for God.

We talked about how little the seeds are and what the Bible says about faith the size of a mustard seed. 

Matthew 13:31 He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. 

We talked about how the seeds will need attention and water everyday and what will happen if we forget about them……. 

          And what will happen if we do or don’t pay attention to prayer everyday!

Mark 4:32 Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds of the air can perch in its shade."

The kids loved putting the crosses together and adding the big tomb stone…. And they only argued a LITTLE bit about where to place them.

We think we will be able to experience some personal growth as we witness the growth of our flowers……

….I wonder will there be weeds?