Decorative autumn cornMy friend Arthur writes:
"My parents owned a livestock farm from my high school years until after my marriage. I loved the farm and made it my home.
Many bags of seed corn have I planted, so I know first hand what takes place.
As the kernel of corn planted in the ground absorbs moisture from its surroundings, it begins to change. It is a slow process of molecule to molecule transferring from the soil to the kernel. Then several days later, the sprout swells and breaks through the tough skin surrounding it and heads towards the surface.
The sprout begins its life above the earth as a single green blade. It quickly becomes two blades, and then on upward as it gains strength from the soil.
Each day adds to its growth, until many weeks later it develops one or two ears of corn and they slowly "fill out," and the one kernel becomes hundreds of kernels. The promise of a single kernel of corn has been fulfilled, but the full ear did not appear first.
The kernel of Truth in the human consciousness develops much the same way. When the seed of some eternal truth first dawns on us, though awe inspiring and beautiful, it is not always fully understood until later. "
It has to grow in its own quiet way. If we love and nurture that truth, it will sprout and develop, send down its squiggly roots, and shoot up its slender blades.
Watching corn grow teaches us patience, hope, and expectancy. Just so, whatever we are cherishing in our thinking grows -- until it becomes part of who we are, how we think, and the way we live. And like the single kernel of corn, multiplies in its maturity to be shared among many and planted broadly.
Since this is true of whatever we are cherishing in thought, let’s be sure that what we are cherishing is something we really want to have become part of our lives.
The good news is that our Maker gives us the intelligence and wisdom to make these choices, helps us honor truth and goodness, the genuine corn, so much that there remains no entry for worldly weirdness to hijack our thinking and take it in unpleasant directions.
It has to grow in its own quiet way. If we love and nurture that truth, it will sprout and develop, send down its squiggly roots, and shoot up its slender blades.
Watching corn grow teaches us patience, hope, and expectancy. Just so, whatever we are cherishing in our thinking grows -- until it becomes part of who we are, how we think, and the way we live. And like the single kernel of corn, multiplies in its maturity to be shared among many and planted broadly.
Since this is true of whatever we are cherishing in thought, let’s be sure that what we are cherishing is something we really want to have become part of our lives.
The good news is that our Maker gives us the intelligence and wisdom to make these choices, helps us honor truth and goodness, the genuine corn, so much that there remains no entry for worldly weirdness to hijack our thinking and take it in unpleasant directions.
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