Beyond the Horizon. Harry A. Renfree

Those who examined the many bomb craters were amazed to find flowers growing in the gaping holes. Apparently, the explosions had unearthed long–dormant seeds of bygone days, and the bombs themselves had put nitrates into the soil, fertilizing the flowers. Life that had been dormant came to bloom in beauty in the midst of destruction.

      The Master’s best–known parable, the parable of the sower told in the first three Gospels, concerns seed. In the spring season, a sower went out to place his seed on the land. Scattering by hand was the method of the day. The ground on which the seed fell was not all equal. As the sower scattered, some seed fell on the hard path along the edge. The birds soon gathered that up. Some fell on a stony place where there was very limited soil and little moisture, so when the hot sun came up, the seed sprang into life quickly but soon withered and died. A third portion of seed fell among thorn bushes, which choked the new growth. Then thankfully, the remaining seed reached good soil and resulted in a magnificent harvest.