You can call me strange, but I think one of the best smells on earth is that of warm, moist soil on a snowy morning in late winter....it smells like life to me - everything all around me pushing, pushing against the cold and promising new growth and new life.
I started going to Michael Brother's Nursery when I was 14 years old...watching, helping, learning...and continued there every spring until after I graduated high school. It was my first experience working outside of home, and I absolutely loved it.
I remember thinking surely I had the best opportunity ever, especially those mornings that it would be snowing outside and we'd be in the warm, quiet greenhouses, transplanting little seedlings. I always felt that I got a head start on spring, watching those little plants grow week after week. My sister Rebekah still goes there every once in a while to help out, and I'm always happy for the chance to visit again.
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the Lord...for as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there, but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater...so shall My word be that goes out from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose..."
{Isaiah 55:8-11}
Blessings,
Rachel Elisabeth
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