Character is the great harvest of
life. – Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, pg. 90.
The
carrot season is here. Everybody at Fountainview knows what it means: lots of
work, and lots of fun! This year I happened to be a part of the entire process,
and it was a great experience.
The process begins
with the preparation of the soil: big tractors mix the soil and form the beds
for the seeds. Then, the sowing starts, and once a field is planted, we turn on
the irrigation. In the following summer months, as the tiny carrot tops appear
on the surface, other leaves appear too, and the weeding process begins. This is
hard and sometimes painful work as we lay face down on a cart that is pulled by
a tractor and pull weeds. We work on the weeding cart eight hours a day, five
days a week, for a few months. Some weeds are big and have grown around the
little carrot plants, and these are difficult to pull out without damaging the
baby carrots. But the carrots grow taller every week.
Finally
the culmination: the harvest. The harvester digs the carrots and shoots them
into big bins that we stack in huge coolers. Some day we will wash and bag the
carrots for selling. We all enjoy seeing the hard work of a whole year turned
into thousands and thousands of yummy carrots!
My
character is something that is growing too, and like the carrots, it needs some
care and hard work. The Holy Spirit is the one that prepares the soil –my
heart, to receive the seed –the Word of God. Jesus is the only one that can
pull out the weeds in my heart –bad habits, selfishness, pride, and all the
others that would hurt my character plant. But in the end, the harvest will be
abundant and my character will be ready for Heaven.
~ Mildred Rhys
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