It is Vital
My daughter and I were eating watermelon at the kitchen table the other day. There were tons of black seeds in the watermelon. She pulled one out, squeezing the tiny black seed between her fingers and said, "Mom, does a watermelon come from this seed?" I responded incredulously, "Yes, can you believe that? This big green, sweet watermelon that we are eating grew from that tiny little seed. I wonder how exactly that happens?" She said, "I know! I know! There is a tiny little watermelon hidden in the seed."
Solid, material things like seeds and watermelons are much easier to understand or explain than the invisible, mysterious processes that make them. It is hard, if not impossible, to understand exactly the process by which a tiny black seed turns into the watermelon. The process of unfolding or growth is not as easy to put a finger on. Often we value what we see more than what we can't see. The seed is planted in the soil. It drinks in water and light and slowly grows. The life source that runs from the earth to the seed, from the sun to the leaves, is something we cannot contain or define. But nonetheless, just like our breath, it is vital. It is important.
Solid, material things like seeds and watermelons are much easier to understand or explain than the invisible, mysterious processes that make them. It is hard, if not impossible, to understand exactly the process by which a tiny black seed turns into the watermelon. The process of unfolding or growth is not as easy to put a finger on. Often we value what we see more than what we can't see. The seed is planted in the soil. It drinks in water and light and slowly grows. The life source that runs from the earth to the seed, from the sun to the leaves, is something we cannot contain or define. But nonetheless, just like our breath, it is vital. It is important.
Can wait to take you and the kids mushroom hunting and show her the tininess of spores!
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Yes!!!
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