Of Green Peas and Bible Study

After the marathon tilling session last week, we’ve been having rain, rain, rain. So I am waiting for a dry few days to put out peas. Some people here say that peas can go out on St. Patrick’s Day. That being a date close to the last predicted frost date. So I am waiting til tomorrow and if there is no rain, out go the peas.

In addition to getting things in the garden, I have eggplant and leeks in peat pots here in the living room. I don’t know how long it takes for them to germinate, but I am getting a little impatient to see some growth. Impatient to see growth! Is that how God feels about me? NO, He is not impatient, but I know He wants to see growth in me just like I long to see some sign of life in the garden.

I pray that He will see growth in me and that I will see that growth and be encouraged along.  I am so thankful for the Bible studies we’ve been having. I can see some growth.

Today’s Bible study was just perfect. We gathered at one of the Bible study member’s home and had a light lunch before we started studying. We had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and pimento cheese sandwiches, both cut into little triangles. We had chips and a Sock-it-To-Me cake. Its been many years since I had one of those! After we ate we prayed and got started on our lesson about the Fruits of the Spirit.

First we sang, Great Is Thy Faithfulness. Those wizened voices rang out on the chorus and it was so sweet to hear. All the promises of the ages, the way that God had moved and worked and supported them over the course of years could be heard in those lines.

We studied from 1 til 4:45 and could have gone on but knew we needed to break. I don’t regret a minute of it. I am so thankful to be at home so I can linger over the Word when I want to. And I am careful to thank God for this blessing. I have not always been able to take my time in study like this.

On Sunday nights, our ladies Bible study meets and we have a great time there , too.  I have enjoyed our study and now we’re about to start another study yet to be determined.  Through the study we have been learning to be better friends to one another, to reach out to each other and to be true sisters in Christ.

My youngest daughter is going with me to the Tuesday Bible studies and I am so thankful for that!  She is getting the benefit of the wisdom of the godly women there.  They can’t possibly know how grateful I am for that blessing.

The sun is setting, the house is clean. The children are reading and playing quietly. The Psalmist says that he will recount God’s blessings in the evening.  So here are mine.  God has been so good to me, every day.  Today He has given me peace, given me the companionship of friends, given me the benefit of hearing wisdom speak, provided what I need to live, given me words to speak to encourage, given me words to speak to instruct, shown me beautiful daffodils in bloom and gives me a kind and good husband to prepare dinner for and comfort.  I am so aware that everything good comes from Him. 

So I will bless you as long as I live;

in your name I will lift up my hands.

My soul clings to you, Your right hand upholds me.