The Seed Is In You!



      Lovely Peony Undergrowth


If you examine the pictures in this post you will notice that there are two plants flowering.  The shorter one is a Peony.  The taller plant was there when I moved in and I just love the large bright bloom.  Last year I thought the plant would die as part of it dried up and I only got about 3 blooms whereas in previous years it would be loaded with blooms.

A few days ago I was watering the garden and noticed that the flower looked different.  A closer look revealed the Peony plant grown up at the root of the other (I don't know the name of that flower, saw it for the first time when I bought house 6 years ago).  I have been on my hands and knees weeding, watering, planting, arranging, admiring but never say anything resembling a Peony growing there before.  I have a Peony bush in the garden, on the other side but it's different.  A different colour and the blooms are full.

 I don't think they grow from seeds like that so my only plausible explanation is that it was there all along, in the ground.  The season came for it to pop out of the ground and it did, to my delight.
This Peony plant is not the first I have seen growing out of the ground since I move here though.  I have seen other flowers, including the odd Cana Lilly appearing out of the ground after taking care of the garden for three years and four years but those I noticed from they shoot out of the ground.  This is extra delightful as I didn't see it coming so to speak!

Now, are we any different from the seeds that stay in the ground and grow forth in their season?  Many of us spend years chasing what is not meant to be ours when the seed for our calling is still in the ground of the spirit so to speak.  Sometimes it's because we lack the faith, or we doubt the gentle nudging of the spirit because we don't believe we are worthy or capable.  If you are finding that you are not feeling fulfilled, if you are finding that this little voice is still telling you "this is what you need to do" listen up, pay attention as your seed is wanting to burst forth.  Remember, God has already equipped you for what you are supposed to do, so don't worry about it.  The opportunities for training, the talented people who are supposed to be on your team are there and they will show up at the right time.

It's been said that a book that is supposed to be written by you cannot be written by someone else, so if you don't write it, it will never be written!  I remember my first exposure to the world of Life Insurance.  It was my second full time job.  I was living in Canada and resigned the first job as a file clerk with the Ontario Government August of 1974 to return to Jamaica to marry my sweatheart.  First things first, our parents said find jobs before you get married.  I applied for a job at a life insurance company, Jamaica Mutual Life, as a policy typist.  I remember seeing a female agent visiting the Head Office where I worked and as she strutted around, just the way only Jamaican women know how, I thought to myself, that is what I want to do!

The seed was planted.  It stayed in the ground.  I returned to Canada a year and a half later - Jamaica had become a very unstable place economically and politically.  Stepped off the plane Sunday night, called a company Monday to respond to an add for a Policyholder Service Clerk position, interviewed Wednesday and started working Friday.  That was in 1977!  In early1986 my company, a subsidiary of the Lincoln Life, an American company, was purchased by a Canadian company and the opportunity came for me to become an agent and I said to myself, this is as good a time as any.
Those years working in the head office of the Jamaica Mutual Life, then their branch office in downtown Kingston and as a customer service clerk and branch administrator for Dominion Life Insurance Company of Canada prepared me to be a knowledgeable, compassionate and effective advisor.  So while the financial services industry has one of the highest turnover rate for sales people, higher still for women, I celebrated 30 years as a licensed life insurance agent this March!

 

 

 There was another seed planted in my spirit after I started in the life insurance business.  I am now on what I have branded "Miss Sam from Braehead, Act III".  I am working at it, more to come.

Keep watering that ground, the shoots will come out one day, and it will happen on a day you were not expecting it!

Cheers,
MissSam

Saturday June 4, 2016