Unplanted Seed
Why do I write…
While the passage above is from one of my fiction books, it is based on an experience that I had at the age of 48… an awakening… a latent calling. When I came across this ancient planter and seed bin on our ranch in Utopia for the first time in real life and discovered the unplanted seed, I was struck to the heart. I knew there was a parable in this scene. A few nights later I took a group of men to the ranch and we each retrieved a seed and walked out into the oat patch into the dark of the night and asked God what that unplanted God seed represented. We waited and listened. When the voice came to each of us individually in our heart, we thanked Him and planted the seed as a symbol that we would enter into the adventure with God to plant and nurture the seed and watch Him produce fruit.
Why do I write…
That night, I heard Him say, “I called you to write.” A few months later my first book exploded through my fingers as if it had been there all along, then a screenplay from the book, then a movie. I’m still in Awe of the power of an unplanted seed. I know that God has a seed with your name on it as well. Look for it, plant it, then watch in awe as you enter a fresh adventure with the Sower.
“A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Some fell on rock and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.” When He had said this, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
- Luke 8:5-8 NIV