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Dirt
By Dorothy Robinson

I want to be a plot of dirt
The kind that produces fruit
A soil in which the word of God
Can grow some lasting roots.

Sometimes I may seem very shallow,
At times I may seem sort of hard,
Other times I let life's worrisome weeds
Just overtake my yard.

But if my life is to reflect
The living Son of God
I must be feed and watered
From the very word of God.

Then Jesus said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How, then, will you understand any parable? The farmer sows the word. Some people are like seed along the path where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. Still others, like seed sown among the thorn, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. Others, like the seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop, thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown."
Mark 4: 13-20

So, when you hear the word of God, will you wilt, fold, choke, or take hold?

©2007 Dorothy Robinson

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