Planting Seeds

We buy the potting soil, cups, and seeds.  We plant the dried up seeds in a little dirt and at the time it seems so impossible. 
How are those little dead looking seeds ever going to amount to anything? 
Then we water them, place them by a window and we wait.  We check them every day and after a few days we start to wonder if plants will ever emerge.  We wonder if we planted them to deep or if the seeds aren't germinating. 
We must have done something wrong.
And then.  Then the very next day we look at that formerly black dirt and see this--life! 

That little seed we planted was doing what it was supposed to do all along.

We just couldn't see it.
If we had tried to dig up the tiny plant to see it before it was time, we would have harmed it.
We just had to have faith.
And patience.
In a few months, this tiny plant will be even bigger and better and will have grown bunches of beautiful flowers. 
This is only the beginning!
This is why I plant flower seeds every year.  It is my reminder that just because I can't see growth right now, it doesn't mean it isn't there.
Thank God for that.

Do not judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.  -Robert Louis Stevenson

I have this quote at the bottom of our stairs and pass under it each night as I tuck my children into bed. 
Some days it doesn't seem like much gets planted in our children.  Or, the seeds we have tried to plant as parents are slow in coming up.  Sometimes we wonder what we did wrong.
But, some days little seedlings pop up all over the place.  We see that the seeds are growing.  We may never see that seed's full growth, but we know that it is doing what it is supposed to do.
Even if we can't see it right now.
Thank God for that.