"Sow seeds of faith over seeds of doubt. Sow seeds of peace over seeds of worry. Sow seeds of love over seeds of fear."

You reap what you sow,
so sow well.
Sow seeds of faith over seeds of doubt.
Sow seeds of peace over seeds of worry.
Sow seeds of love over seeds of fear.
And if in the past,
you sowed what you did not need,
there is nothing that says
you must keep watering those things.
Leave them alone and let them be,
so you can make room to sow
only the things that bring life.

Isn’t it incredible that a seed that is so small it can get lost in your hand can grow into a tree that towers above you? Life begins small. It can begin with a simple action of putting a seed into the ground. Of course it takes years for a seed to fully spring up into a tree, but somewhere along the way, something happened beneath the earth in order for it to come to be.

So the question becomes, what are you going to sow? What are you going to plant in the earth?

You may not be able to look beneath the surface, but that is precisely the place where things begin to grow. It takes faith, patience, and a willingness to sow into something you cannot see. Sowing a seed rarely ever yields fast results, which is contrary to how we are often pressured to live our lives.

But I hope you can know what the gardener knows. I hope you can know that beautiful things take time. I hope you can look out on your garden that is not quite what you thought it would be and still believe that these things will grow in the way they are meant to. I hope you can trust what is happening beneath the surface. I hope you can choose to believe that even though you cannot see it, Life is being shaped beneath the soil and season after season, things will spring into bloom.

And more than you sow seeds of fear, I hope you can sow seeds of love. I hope you can keep planting and sowing even when you are wondering if what will bloom will even be good enough. Because right now, what matters is your willingness and your desire to prepare for the growth that is sure to come.

Just think about how much this will strengthen you in the days to come. Think about how you are going to look back on days like this and be so grateful that you chose to persist beyond the boundaries of your fears. And all along, you were being shaped, in the most beautiful, life-giving way...even before you knew how certain things would bloom.

And all of this will happen because you chose to not only sow seeds, but you chose to sow well. You chose to sow faith over doubt, peace over worry, love over fear. You chose to believe that no matter what you had sown before, you could sow something new. No matter what held you back all those years ago, it did not have to hold you back today.

More tomorrow…
Sincerely,
Morgan Harper Nichols
@thestorytellerco
@morganharpernichols