For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops. But in the seventh year the land is to have a sabbath of rest, a sabbath to the Lord. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest. Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you… Leviticus 25: 3-6.

This year, we decided to not have a garden, which is probably a good thing with all the other projects we’ve been working on. I don’t know if it’s the 7th year, but we have had one many years so we decided to give it a break. Well, I like to throw my compostable items in one area of the garden so they can decompose naturally. So it was to our surprise that we have this cucumber plant growing in the middle (I did try to rake away the majority of the decomposing items for the picture). We haven’t been watering at all either. So this showed me that God will provide in the most unexpected and all circumstances. Even what seems to be a dirty mess or when it seems like nothing good could come out of it. I haven’t seen any cucumbers yet, but it does give me hope that good can come from any situation or circumstance, if we just look a little closer.

So I debated in my mind whether to retake the picture to make it look more beautiful, less of the ugly background. I have come to the conclusion to keep it because, if it weren’t for the composting stuff, we wouldn’t have the new plant. Beauty from ashes. We are all made new. So it’s because of the circumstances that we thrive and grow to be who we are. Grow where you are planted. Be the miracle like the plant and grow!