Photosynthesis

It has been clear to me, from the time I was a little girl, that we had a very personal connection with God.  

Or, better said, a connection that God had with us.

As I began to wonder, with you yesterday, this connection is so natural in its very nature.  So very confusingly simple; that it is totally missed in our world of reason and logic.

Seed,

        root,

                vine,

branch,

                             leaf,

flower,

                                          fruit.

                                                         All everyday normal stuff.

If there is anything unclear in the Bible — the New Testament — John 15 is not unclear.

Anyone with a kindergarten through twelfth grade education can, in some way, relate to how the seed grows into something else.

As I wrote yesterday the seed becomes the root which produces a plant, shrub, bush, tree or vine.

We are taught early in our education about how life begins and grows into a healthy and productive vegetation. 

The process is called photosynthesis.  The process by which plants — specifically green plants — use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.

John 15 Jesus begins:  I am the vine you are the branches….a part from me you can do nothing.

You and I are part of an eternally divine process from before we were a seed delivered to the soil of our mother’s womb.

Each child born is part of a process of God’s own creation.

All of life — all of it —begins as a tiny seed that has been placed in a place of nourishment and grows into a living thing.

Think about how God uses water, light, and breath throughout scripture.

Every living thing need all three of these ingredients in order to survive.

God is all three of those ingredients.

This all makes so much sense to my simple mind.

It connects all the puzzle pieces.  All the pieces about how God lives and breathes within me and you