What do I do when I have lost my inspiration? The name of this blog is inspirations from the garden for the body and the soul! I have been avoiding even looking at this blog. There hasn’t been too much inspiration probably because of the business of life and when I had time, I would read email, look at the weather, but not open the blog. Today I mentioned this to a friend and asked for prayer. This afternoon in the least expected place, digging in the dry, hard ground and not finding a single potato, the inspiration for another post came!!
It is delightful showing beautiful, green pictures of produce and flowers. But what do I write about when my late summer garden has been a disappointment. The tomatoes have been small, the spaghetti squash rotted before ripening, only one hill of pumpkins have any promise and who knows but maybe the stink bugs have been eating holes in them!
The very last verses in the book of Habakkuk state this thought, “Though the fig tree should not blossom and there is no fruit on the vines, even if the yield of the olive should fail, and the fields produce no food, even though the flocks die in the fields and there are no cattle in the barns, Yet will I exult in the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation! The Lord God is my strength, and He has made my feet like hind’s feet, And makes me walk on my high places.”
Even if this late season had not produced a single thing, I can still rejoice in my God who is my strength. In the spring I plant and hope that my vegetables will look like the ones pictured in the seed catalog. It’s a disappointment when the seeds don’t sprout and the weeds take over eventually.
Seasons in my life start out with great promise and vision. We can lose the inspiration that we once had. It takes diligence to keep working, even when the results are not what I expect. I can trust in God regardless of the circumstances. Habakkuk wrote that God gave him hind’s feet. A hind is a sure-footed graceful female red deer who moves with confidence in the high mountains. When the disappointments of life come, we can climb to the high places where the air is pure and clear and we can be refreshed regardless of the circumstances of life.