Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
SEEDS ARE US!
SEEDS ARE US
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Seeds are us. Seeds are representative of us. Seeds are the divinity, the innate capacities that is in each of us to be, whatever we were each, were all, foreordained to be by the grace of God.
Seeds like humans are not self-executing, however. Seeds and humans must be properly “raised.”
Seeds must have fertile soil, water, space, sunlight, oxygen, just like mankind. Seeds can be wrongly cast on rocky, barren soil. Seeds can be deprived of life-giving, life-sustaining water. Seeds can planted too close together, be too-bunched together, be denied adequate space to stretch out, reach out and grow, free of entanglement. Seeds can be denied sunlight from which radiation comes, from which irradiation ensues. Seeds can be deprived of oxygen the essence of life, the sine qua non of life on earth.
On rare occasions, there are so-called “bad seeds” that either won’t grow, or won’t grow right! Usually, this has more to do with environmental conditions deprivations, than defective content of the seeds.