Pigpen, the character from the Snoopy comic strip, is what comes to my mind as I watched my husband mow our yard. Pigpen travels in a cloud of dirt and dust and spreads it wherever he goes. Such is the same when my husband was mowing last year! Our yard sits on a slope and over the years some of it has washed away so that all that is left are patches of dirt. Erosion had caught up with it. So with each pass of the mower over these eroded places, a cloud of dust followed him!

In an effort to reclaim the yard, my husband planted grass seed and fertilized the yard like clockwork last year. His efforts are just now being seen with the onset of Spring. As I looked out the window one day last week, I saw his efforts in living color! Lush green grass was growing where there had only been dirt. But this grass was only growing where he planted and fertilized it. The rest of the grass in the yard is not as green or thick as in the newly rising grass.

Our spiritual lives are as such also. Our relationship with Christ must be continual. Everyday we must come to Him, read His Word, and talk to Him everyday else it too will become eroded over time. You might say, 'Just missing this one day without reading won't matter'. But one day becomes two, then a week, months…and before you know it, you can't remember the last time you kneeled in prayer.

Not only do we just have to plant, we must tend to the garden, our spiritual lives. We need to nourish it with water, the living Word, and fertilize it with prayer and love!

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