Saturday, July 9, 2016

Rewards versus Grace

Hard work has its rewards. For example, last spring Dennis worked to plant potatoes – yellow, red, and a few blue. When the potato plants were host to some nasty potato bugs, he carefully looked over each plant and squished the bugs he found feasting on the plants’ leaves. Then, when the vines yellowed and died down, he dug the potato crop with the help of Bill and Zander.

The buckets of potatoes were his reward. He had earned them.


Sometimes, though, good things come to us through no effort of our own. For example, this summer a healthy stand of American bellflower appeared in a bed of vinca that lines our driveway. It is one of my favorite Kansas wildflowers, but I did absolutely nothing to make this happen. The flowers somehow made their way to this spot.


Dennis earned the potatoes. I did nothing to earn the flowers. They are a grace bestowed by Mother Nature.

May some unexpected grace come to each of us today.

Copyright 2016 by Shirley Domer



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