[SisterK]

Good evening Dan
Lots of good art and impossible to pick a favorite

I love the parable of the sower.
It speaks to our work, planting seeds.
It also speaks about the four soil types. Thankfully we were CHOSEN to be fertile soil that we may host the Word in our hearts.

One of my favorite translations of a soil verse is from the original Living Bible (circa 1977)

Ephesians 3: 16 – 19
That out of His glorious, unlimited resources He will give you the mighty inner strengthening of His Holy Spirit, and I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your heart, living within you as you trust in Him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high His love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God Himself.

When I read this translation, I visualize a small acorn that has grown into a mighty oak.

blessings to you
K

[Hebrews 11:6]

I gave myself to Jesus on October 7, 1977, a Friday. On Sunday the Holy Spirit told me to ask my boss for the week off to begin reading the Bible. I called him and explained, and being a Christian himself he gave me an immediate "Do it."

First thing on Monday I visited a Christian bookstore I had seen. I told my situation to the manager and he suggested that I buy a Living Bible for its easier reading.

I began devouring it, reading for many hours daily. I couldn't put it down! I set a goal of finishing the OT by Christmas, but I finished both testaments by Thanksgiving--seven weeks.

I've switched from that paraphrase to translations, and I've slowed down, but I've never stopped.

[InkStone]

“... a small acorn that has grown into a mighty oak.”
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SisterK, good post indeed; may we all grow in that way.