Pumpkin Chronicles 2: Pumpkin Seeds & Christian Growth

What’s so exciting about a pumpkin seed?  It’s a beige, flat, almond-shaped seed that can be between 1/2 to 1 inch in length.  It’s not fancy at all.

A Pumpkin Seeds Knows How to Grow No Matter How It Is Placed In the Ground

Have you ever tasted a pumpkin seed?  They are quite yummy with an earthy, nutty-sweet flavor.  Pumpkin seeds can be roasted or toasted alone for a healthy and delicious snack.  Used as an ingredient, pumpkin seeds can be found in breads, cereals, soups, breakfast bars, desserts, and sauces.

Some nutritionists think that pumpkin seeds are as close as you can get to a perfect food.  These little seeds are a natural source of carbohydrates, amino acids, and unsaturated fatty acids. They are packed with most of the B vitamins, along with C, D, E, and K, and have the minerals calcium, potassium, niacin, and phosphorous.

For centuries, Native American Indians found pumpkin seeds to be helpful in treating illnesses, as well as, to treat kidney problems and to eliminate parasites.  Today, pumpkin seeds are being used to treat prostate and bladder problems and also to help with depression and learning disabilities.

The most amazing thing about a pumpkin seed is that no matter which way you place it in the ground, it knows which

Pumpkin Plant Shoots Up With Hands Raised to the Sun

way to grow.  It seeks the sun and needs to stay under its rays for a minimum of six hours each day.  Its oval leaves shoot up from the ground unfolding like a pair of praying hands reaching in surrender to the sun.  As it matures, it reaches out its branches and produces fruit filled abundantly with more seeds that will provide a good food source or be available for next year’s planting.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to act like a pumpkin seed in our walk with God?
We would:

1. Always know which way to grow no matter where we are planted.
2. Seek the Son and stay in His light.
3. Humbly and prayerfully surrender to the Father in everything we do.
4. Reach out to others bearing good fruit (Galatians 5:22-23) teaching others of God’s perfect Love.
5. Plant seeds that continue to bear fruit and further God’s kingdom.

Remember this verse:

Deuteronomy 4:29 (New International Version)
²⁹ But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Life can be difficult, but through the lesson of the pumpkin seed, I pray that I will always know which way to grow and seek the Son, always humble, and with dedication to continue to bear fruit.

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