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Thursday, July 24, 2025
We have had tomato plants in the past, but it has been a few years. So when this plant started producing little green tomatoes, it seemed exciting. It started out as an eight inch tall plant from the garden section of our local hardware store. In hindsight I should have got a bigger starting plant, because this one seems pretty far behind other plants I have seen lately.
Everybody starts somewhere. Some start ahead and some start behind. It seems like the key is to get started at all. It might be like walking. We don’t all start out by walking long distances. We start with small manageable amounts and work up.
It is the same with our spiritual lives. It wouldn’t make sense to go from nothing to reading the Bible two hours a day. We can start with small things and work up.
Just like these tomatoes started small. It takes patience and gentle persistence to start bearing fruit.