In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
Many years, ago my husband and I lived in Columbia, South Carolina. Our next door neighbors were a retired couple named Vera and Inky (a nickname for his formal name of English). We lived in a small duplex and Vera and Inky lived in a cozy cottage style house. There was a chain link fence separating the two yards.
Inky loved to work in his garden. In the spring and summer, he would start working in his garden early in the morning. About noon he would go inside for lunch and to get a reprieve from the heat. Late in the afternoon he would come back out to continue planting , fertilizing and watering his garden.
My favorite flowers he planted were Morning Glories. They grew on the fence and early on summer mornings I would look out my window and see the beautiful purple flowers opened wide, looking toward the sky. In the heat of the afternoon, they would close up and rest. The next morning, just like Inky, they would be back again.
This pattern of work and rest, planting and harvesting, reminds me of parenting. There are times we are up early, planting seeds for a future harvest and there are times of rest. We hope when our children go to college this will be a time we see the flower bloom.
Early one morning a few years ago, I noticed morning glories growing on our wooden fence in our yard here in North Carolina. We had not planted them. My husband said that birds or the wind may have brought them. I like to think they blew here from Inky's yard. I look forward every summer to seeing their pretty purple petals.
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