Good Morning Garden

In a certain museum in New York there are a couple of dinosaur’s eggs on view. This exhibit appeals to the imagination. Visitors say, “Those eggs were laid millions of years ago, and here they are today untouched!” These people are apt to overlook the fact that for the dinosaur in question they represent complete failure. After all the trouble of laying those eggs nothing ever came of them.

It is surprising how many otherwise intelligent men and women waste the best days of their lives laying dinosaur’s eggs that never hatch out. Either through lack of energy, or lack of intelligent planning, or failure to make God a partner, or more often sheer muddle headedness, they lay an excellent egg and then stroll away and forget it. Do not start a plan unless you really think it is worthwhile, do not rest until you have brought it to fruition.

And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God (Luke 9:62).

How many times do we have a great idea, start a worthwhile project or make a decision to do something good and then walk away without completing it? How would our lives be different if we finished all those things? Think of the man who writes a great book but refuses to finish it. How many lives would be changed by reading it, how many enlightened or entertained; and what about the author himself. What would his life be like if the book was finished and became a best seller. Or, if not a best seller, at least the book became a completed project and demonstrated the writer’s self respect and worth to himself and others.

Gardening hardy,
Z gardener