Hope, Tended To

Recently, I was planting some cold weather crops, and it occurred to me just how many times I will tend to these seeds (eventually turned plants) over the coming months.

When we put a seed in the ground, we do not merely plant it and hope that growth will happen.

We tend to those seeds, over and over and over again. While the seeds do their thing under the soil, we continue to keep a close eye on what we can see shifting externally.

Like a mother, tending to a baby.

Without words, what does it need?

When we look at this act of “tending to” through the lens of gardening, maybe we can see a little more clearly that our own seeds of hope require the same tending.

When it comes to our own desires, we often allow them to start as a little seed in the mind or the heart.

But do we ever nurture that seed so that it can become something more?

Just like the seeds we put in the ground, the seeds of our own desire require nurture.

Tending to.

Aligned action.

When these things are integrated, that’s where the blooming happens.

For me, this is the season of wintering. The time where the things that have been planted already lay dormant underground, waiting for a time to germinate. The way we show up for those scatterings now is what determines the path of seasons ahead.

If the seeds of what you want for yourself have been planted, I ask you, how are you tending to those desires? What actions are aligning to support that germination so that it can move past a ruminating thought and into something bigger?

“Tend to good seeds,” currently hangs on my wall as a reminder to nurture what is already planted, what is already good.

-Becca