The Seeds We Sow

One Sunday, the lay youth leader at church had the children act out a scene from an old TV show. The moral of the lesson was that each of us has a mission from God to fulfill in our daily lives. I still think about that lesson every day. Since then, it has been my custom to ask God, “What is my mission today?” Then I write down my daily to-do list, which usually includes humdrum tasks and chores. But occasionally I am inspired to add something else — send a note to a friend, call someone unable to leave home, or do a task that takes me out of my comfort zone.

One day I mentioned to the youth leader how much that lesson had meant to me, and she replied, “I don’t remember that at all.” How curious, I thought. However, I have found that we often sow seeds of kind words or good deeds that we forget. They may go unappreciated, but sometimes they land where they do good. So I vowed to keep writing that list and checking it off in hopes that some God-inspired actions or words will fall on good soil, exactly where they need to be.