Sometimes God Gives You Lemon Balm
and when He does..........
I am happy to report that our last newsletter, Flaming Hot Peppers, is probably on its way to being our most read newsletter since we started writing newsletters in February.
Apparently, there’s just something about the word, Puckerbutt, that makes people love their healing news a bit on the spicy side.
I love the smell of lemon balm which has a lot of healing properties-
I usually like to grow evasive, invasive herbs, nicely contained in large pots where they will grow where I want them to grow and not where I don't want them to grow. However, due to the “unprecedented” cold weather we had this past December, a lot of plants did not live to see spring, my lemon balm included.
I was patient with my lemon balm, more patient with it than all of the other shrubs in my garden which thankfully came back to life.
I waited and waited for my lemon balm to give me some indication that it was still alive, but time seemed to be running out on me, and the desire for something beautiful to grow in that now empty space soon had me giving up on it, so I headed out to our local big box hardware store, that starts with the letter L.
I did not find any lemon balm that day, but I did find some other plants to fill the empty space left behind by the lemon balm.
The next morning I wandered out in the 7 am cool of the day to check on my plants. It felt so good in the garden that I spent a little extra time puttering around and taking care of some weeds.
It’s probably a good thing I was enjoying myself so much, otherwise I may have mistaken the lemon balm I found growing in my garden for weeds and mindlessly pulled it up and tossed it away.
At first glance I wasn’t sure of what my eyes were seeing, so I had to touch and smell the leaves which confirmed the scent of lemon balm growing right there under my nose.
I couldn’t believe it, lemon balm growing right where I had not planted it nor expected it!
And then it happened again!
As I continued my weeding, I found even more lemon balm growing on the other side of my garden, and it was growing abundantly!
I had lemon balm growing everywhere!
I found it thriving in my broccoli and cabbages. I have no earthly idea how it got there because I had it planted, in a large pot, on my deck, close to my house and far away from my garden.
My mind is still boggled over the abundance of lemon balm growing in my garden. Could it be a lemon balm miracle?
Sometimes, when God decides to give you lemon balm you didn’t even bother to ask him for, even though you have a whole prayer page devoted to this concept, He gives you lemon balm unexpectedly and abundantly, which then reminds you that you probably should have asked Him for some lemon balm in the first place.
I love God surprises like this. He gave me an abundance of lemon balm growing around my cabbages and broccoli trees when I thought I didn’t have any.
God is so mysterious and so much better at making things grow than I am. While I spin and toil trying to merely imitate what He does, it seems like He sees me wanting and says,
hold my wine and watch this………
Don’t give up. Keep the faith, finish the race.
~ St. Paul and The Epistles in a nutshell.
Bonus Content-
Did you know that it can sometimes be beneficial to just leave the weeds right where they are growing? Yes, it’s true! And maybe you can then use less of those modern chemicals and maybe even avoid chemically caused diseases like cancer in the process. In fact, leaving the weeds alone is why I found the lemon balm growing amongst my brassicas. Miracle?
You can learn more about that here-
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Left, but sort of related turn-
Last Friday Hubby and I went to the big city of Tupelo on business, but the small business that we were told would be open, was actually closed, so we decided to make the best of a frustrating situation by seeing some sites while we were there.
We popped into Tupelo Hardware Co. to check it out, and we were pleasantly surprised to find people working there who actually knew a lot of stuff about hardware and history and they actually wanted to know stuff about us too, especially where we were from because people from all over the world stop in to stand in the place where Elvis’ first guitar was purchased.
It’s amazing how much connecting can be done over Elvis, Bufford Pusser, Paul Thorn (who has also been known to spend time at Tupelo Hardware), and the grandson of the man who opened the Tupelo Hardware Co. in 1926, who had a stroke a few weeks back, but was back at work in the hardware store, in a wheelchair with his arm and leg banged up, and asking us where we were from. This is the kind of experience you will probably almost never get at the big box stores.
Best Wishes,
Stephanie
