To Find the Buried Treasure - You May Have to First Dig Thru Some "Fertilizer"
Treasure is often buried deep down within the soil and sometimes to get to the buried Treasure we have to be willing to dig through some “fertilizer” or MANURE first - YUCK!!! Cue - Vomit, plugged nose, etc.
I once chaperoned a school field trip for 8th graders, and we took a red eye to the East Coast - our first stop was Cracker Barrel for breakfast, and then we headed straight to a working cow farm to observe how milk was extracted from cows - talk about a mess ready to happen! Cracker Barrel + No Sleep + Hundreds of Cows = Barf a Thon!
You get the picture - ugggh!
No one likes fertilizer at the outset. As I walk through Lowes or Home Depot in the garden section the manure definitely has a distinct and repulsive smell. Yet without adding fertilizer or nitrogen to the soil - the soil will be bland and the crops will be stunted in growth, lacking color, abundance, and nutrients.
This “fertilizer” is actually very needed in soil or the crops will be small and stunted. The crops and flowers represent the blessings and growth in our lives.
One particular type of fertilizer is fish emulsion which is just dead, ground-up fish. One time I used fish emulsion and that was the most disgusting SMELL - ughh!! Somehow I got it EVERY WHERE and the smell lasted for weeks.
Then I thought - hey! If a little drop is GOOD - then I bet ALOT is even better! Nope - not so!! The intense nitrogen was too much for my sweet little plants in my garden, and it burnt them up. I cried and felt like the worst gardener in the world. Sometimes too much of a good thing can be destructive.
Another fertilizer that I make for my plants is organic compost. I used scraps of unwanted food waste and put it in a bin that is made to rotate and make compost quickly. If we were to through our food scraps out into our yards - not only would they stink and rot and attract rats, but it wouldn’t be as nourishing to the soil.
However, when we take the food waste - such as egg shells, leftover scraps of vegetable cuttings, coffee grounds, etc. and put them into a container made for composting and turn it every day - pretty soon you’ll have fertilizer for your plants! It also requires that the compost be kept moist for faster decomposition. I also add composter accelerator to speed the breakdown of the waste and scraps which I buy from Amazon - I use Jobe’s compost starter - https://a.co/d/aFL4d0x
The flies buzz in, the mixture smells to high Heaven, and it’s this rich, dark, moist gunk (for lack of a better term), but when mixed with the soil around your garden, plants and trees - OH MY!! It turns hard soil into loamy, rich, dark, mineral-infused, Heaven for your plants - a type of smorgasbord!! Your plants will be so grateful and they grow faster, stronger, and produce more abundant crops.
The waste and scraps are comparable to the damage in our lives. When it’s processed through properly with water (Holy Spirit) and the sunshine (Jesus) then it can actually be the set up for the growth and blessings in our lives!!
Our traumas, our past hurts, rejection, abandonment, etc. can all be used as a SET UP for growth, Victory and blessings! I know it doesn’t make sense, but if we process through it properly then it can actually accelerate our future!
Many people don’t want to process through it and want to shortcut the healing process. This is similar to throwing those vegetable scraps ON TOP of your garden bed! If you just throw kitchen scraps on top of the garden, it doesn’t really feed the plants and all it does is attract more problems - rats!
All this to say - to find the buried “treasure” sometimes you have to sift through some soil and the easiest soil to sift through is loamy, loose, and soft because it’s processed through a great deal of “fertilizer” that life has thrown at it.
Stay loamy - be soft, agile, rich, and LOAMY by working with the Lord (and a good therapist!) to process through past traumas and hurts. Allow them to be your catalyst for success and NOT be your anchor/downfall.
Your buried treasure is coming to the surface!! And it will be glorious!
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