When Needs Are Changed To Seeds

Be it in tears, fears, calm prayer or passionate screams, we send our needs to God in heaven. Prayer is the carrier. Our expectations are often for immediate answers to our pleas. Yet, God often takes our needs and transfigures them into seeds. Seeds are not instant buds of rainbows after storms. Much the opposite, these seeds become kernels to be planted deep within the soil of our souls. From there roots of Faith, stems of Hope and flowers of blessings miraculously grow from the needs we placed in God’s Hands.

So easily, we forget God’s first chosen land for us was a garden. Even in Eden, a garden, to be landscaped in peace and harmony, had to be tilled, planted, watered and weeded. So also, must our needs (turned into seeds) undergo the same process. For only then, transformation into blessings will blossom from our worldly misfortunes.

Next time we think God is too slow in handling our needs, may we instead see His Hands changing needs into seeds. With grateful hearts and patient minds, let us remember God cares about our each and every need, transforms one and all into redeemed seeds and transplants them into a bouquet of blessings — handpicked for our individual good, protection and reward. In God’s Hands, our greatest of needs become the seeds for our most valuable and cherished triumphs. Herein lies man’s strength and way to trust God with all our needs.