A Little More Faith

The magazine made it look great AND easy. There was a picture of a large green, grassy lawn with a full description of this special drought resistant, high quality, organic grass and turf seed, which had been specially tested and guaranteed to grow in our area. Pretty expensive, but when you compared that picture with our front lawn (which looked like a WW2 battlefield when the workmen finished building our home) it was worth it and besides, the sample I had received and planted was already beginning to take hold. So, we went for it…nothing ventured you know?
It was already mid June when our expensive see arrived and as you might remember, this year we went directly from winter to summer..not much cool spring weather. So mid June was hot and dry, but we sowed our seed and proceeded to water and fertilize it. Daily we checked on the progress, nothing yet. Mid July, a few sprigs of something came up in our flowerbeds, not exactly where we wanted if it was grass. We didn't know for sure because we weren't even sure what our grass would look like as seedlings. Late July, the rain came, not soft gently rain, but torrential rains and with nothing to hold the top soil we experienced lots of 'wash'. OK, so maybe the seed was not a good idea, we better do something else. So we sodden just around the area where the most wash had occurred and we spent about the same amount of money on sod as we had on the seed..WE kept saying to me (seed was after all, my idea) that we really messed up on that decision and wasted a lot of money. It is now November and guess what, we have little sprigs of grass cropping up all over the place, millions of little springs..so now we're thinking 'with just a little bit of faith and a few less doubts we could have saved ourselves a lot of trouble and expense.'
Letting go and letting God is a lot like that ..things happen in God's good time, not ours! But be assured, it will happen and it will be the right time and the right thing for us if God is in charge. God intervenes in the affairs of men by invitation only, Prayer.
For We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight …2 Corinthians 5:7