Start with the observation

A farmer scatters tiny grains into dark mud, watching the seed rot away, only to reap bushels of golden wheat at harvest.

Follow the reasoning

  1. Earthly life is the field of sowing; actions, intentions, and virtues are the seeds planted in the soil of time.
  2. The physical decay of our worldly existence is the necessary cracking of the husk so the eternal plant may emerge.
  3. No sincere act of kindness or whispered prayer is lost; everything matures toward a harvest of everlasting joy.

A passage to hold beside it

“The universal order that stores the entire blueprint of a giant tree within a tiny seed does not allow human choices to vanish unrecorded.” 1

Read plainly

Do not weep because the seed disappears into the earth. Rejoice in the certainty of the eternal harvest.

Try observing this

Plant a thought of kindness today. Know that it is a seed that will yield fruit in an everlasting realm.

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