Seed Your Need

"When you want apples, plant apple seeds. Then harvest your apples and take their seeds and plant more apples. That's abundant living."~DD Jewell

"As long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest will continue." ~Genesis 8:22

Nature has so many parallels to the human experience. One of the most simple parallels is seedtime and harvest, from it births a universal law (or principle) called reciprocity. Some call it Karma, others say, "what goes around comes around", "you reap what you sow", or "you get what you give." It has been coined different ways but its meaning remains the same, we produce our realities by what we do.

When a farmer wants a potato, he must plant potato seeds. If a farmer want apples, he must plant apple seeds. Take notice that depending on what you want, the sowing and harvesting times will vary. No one plants an apple tree and reap it's fruit in a couple weeks, months or even a year. You can plant tomato seeds and in a couple of month have wonderful tomatoes. Nonetheless, you shouldn't sow what you need when you desperately need it; you sow it BEFORE you need it. If I wanted to make tomato soup, I wouldn't go outside and plant tomato seeds and expect natural laws to forfeit their timing for my needs or desires to have tomato soup tonight or tomorrow.

In this analogy, see yourself as a farmer (sower) and life as your soil. The same is true in life. Reciprocity is a never ending cycle of sowing and reaping. Whatsoever you continuously sow, that will you continuously reap. You can't do it once or twice and abandon it. People are famous for saying "I tried this or that and it didn't work". Did it not work or did you not work it consistently? If you want money, sow money. If you want love, sow love. If you want blessings, be a blessing. If you want peace, bring peace. If you want good health, sow good health practices and habits into yourself. If you never want to be without something make sure you constantly sow it.

This universal law of Reciprocity works for all, whether a believer or non-believer, because God establisehed it and he created us all. If an atheist sows money (invests wisely), the atheist will reap wealth. If a believer sows financial recklessness, then the believer will reap financial calamity.

Things we must consider when trying to optimize our harvests:

1. We must have seeds to sow (talent, time, money, resources, etc)

2. We have to diligently find (research) good ground to sow into. All ground (people and/or entities) aren't good and may be hard or full of weeds and will kill your seed. Also consider yourself as good ground to sow into.

3. We must do our due diligence and cultivate the soil we are sowing into.

4. We must endure the season of "wait" with active faith trusting that we will reap our harvests at the appointed time yet also sowing more seeds into other grounds.

5. We have to reap our harvest, take the fruit and sow the seeds back into the ground.

This is a never-ending cycle. We have to choose to sow because that makes room in our lives to receive. If you are full of wants and desires, release them and fill yourself up with seeds. Fill yourself with ideas and ways you can sow into the lives of others. While you are actively pursuing that, before you know, blessings will overtake you.