Plant the Seed

Take care of the Seed

 

It is a great tragedy that a seed must die before it sees the fruit of its efforts. This is possibly, why only few a seed are ever planted, but the greater tragedy is the fact that there will be no fruit if the seed is not planted. We enjoy fruit, but never take time to do the arithmetic. You can tell how many seed there is in a mango but you cannot tell how many mangoes there are in the seed.

 

Many people are willing to reap where they have not sown and are very ready to harvest from the labor of others. Seldom is the effort remembered, or recognized. The harvest is often referred to as a windfall, winnings, luck or manna. The seed itself is a hard, dry, sun baked, ugly nut. It is the reject of a juicy occasion, the byproduct of digestion. Its only virtue is that it can be recycled. Nobody wants to be a seed because there is always the danger of that you will be rejected and have to die.

 

It is not easy being a seed. Everyone enjoys the proceeds of a seed, but reject the seed itself. Seed is seed whether one or many. The impact is the same. Because we believe seed should be many, we refrain from planting. By throwing away, wasting and trampling seed under foot, we throw away precious opportunity then wonder why success never comes our way.

 

The circumstances around you may not reflect a field, but what you have in hand is certainly seed. It is so small minor and of very little significance. When you look at it, you are temped to throw it away or overlook the opportunity it presents to you because you are looking for something bigger of greater value.

 

Take time to plant seed, water it, nurture it, tend it, care for it, develop it and watch over it while it grows. In the beginning, it is not much. In the end, no one will know that all you had in the beginning was a seed. The seed must die, but don't you know that though the flesh be sweet, it is only the seed that is reborn. Though the flesh be beautiful, it is only the seed that will live again. It is only the seed that lives forever, everything else can never.

 

We hesitate when asked to plant a seed. We easily forget the principle of time and multiplication and never think of rebirth. We eat the flesh of the fruit of our work, home, career, family, church and easily discard the seed along the way. Little do we know that by doing so we throw away the future. In time, we regret that the seed was in our hand and that we never took time to plant it, nurture it and feed it so that it will feed us tomorrow. Plant a seed today. It's the little things that lives forever.

 

Allan Bukusi, 2006

Veteran. 6