Springtime: The Season for Personal Soil Enrichment

“𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙨: … 𝙖 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙪𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙩” 𝙀𝙘𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙨 3: 1-2

𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐄𝐧𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

Spring has finally arrived helping lift our spirits with tulips, daffodils and crocus perennials popping up all around us. And with every new season come those timeless words from Ecclesiastes reminding each of us that it’s “a time to plant and a time to uproot.” For me, spring has always been associated with power raking my lawn, and yes, I still do all my own landscaping. It’s the time to clear out the weeds and debris in my garden and flower beds and add a healthy layer of compost and mulch to improve the soil’s texture, nutrient content, and moisture-retention to help sustain my plants, flowers, and garden.

In the same way we enrich the soil to help our plants grow and take root, I can also examine the inner soil of my heart and my relationships. Scripture is chock full of references of the different types of soil in our lives, the pathways that we walk on, and the many seeds that God has given to each of us (e.g., The Parable of the Sower). Just like the perennials and annuals, we also hope for a fruitful spring season but acknowledge that in our personal and work life, those God-given seeds often land on hardened, rocky, or thorny ground where the weeds of fear, anxiety, and busyness get in the way of our seeds ability to fully germinate and grow into that abundant harvest we seek.

During this new season of spring, I hope and pray that I can improve the inner soil of my heart, especially the hardened soil where I lack the understanding of what other family members, friends, and clients may be going through. To prayerfully ask the Lord to help me clear my own field and uncover the troublesome rocks and thorny brambles that cloud my path forward. To have a more open heart with eyes that can see more clearly and ears that can listen more attentively to help validate whatever someone is sharing with me.

So how about you? How fertile is your own soil today?

· What creates good soil for you? Is it the hardened soil that needs to soften for greater understanding and compassion, the rocky soil of self-sabotage that prevents the strong roots you need from taking hold, or is it those thorny weeds of self-doubt and fear that cloud your vision of what you are trying to accomplish?

· Where have you seen good soil and plentiful harvest in others around you?

· Is there someone you know who you could help with their own soil enrichment program?

Remember that in every new season, there is no limit to the fruit our seeds may bear if we allow the Lord some space in our life.

Happy planting, Dr. K

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