Starting something new always seems so daunting. But, in reality, it’s God who provides the “first seed,” the initiative to begin. The source of all beginnings is the One at the very beginning, the fountainhead.
II Corinthians 9:10
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
Jesus and his cohort used the planting metaphors for good reason: they speak loudly to the basics. I get so caught up on the complexities of life that I lose track of the baseline.
I think I’ve been planting the wrong seeds in the wrong ground at the wrong time of my life. Well, maybe not wrong, but not the best seeds. I’m trying too hard to use someone else’s seeds . . . trying to build on someone else’s foundation . . . trying to become the image of who I think I should be instead of who I am.
The book by Elizabeth Gilbert and now, the subsequent movie, Eat, Pray, Love is finding so much resonance with women because we recognize ourselves in her pre-journey self. We recognize how often we have been sucked up into someone else’s story and lost something along the way.
But I can’t take off a year to let go of all my previous choices. Instead, I must begin each day as a journey. And I must look to God who offers me a new seed each day to plant.
This day can be new. This day holds the potential for anything and everything. This day holds a seed of an idea.
Meditations from Zion 
Irm,
It is interesting to me that our struggles with identity and choices – the desire to make ourselves in an image we conceive rather than who we are – is a life long journey. It’s like they say in support groups, “one day at a time”. How do I, today, live as the woman God has created me to be?
Thanks for sharing in your blog! It is a blessing to me this morning.
– Jess Stan
Yes… but is it about “living” as the women God created us to be OR is it accepting ourselves as the women God created us to be.