Why The Beans I Planted Never Grew Up

Sunday, April 4th, 2010 at 3:41 pm

My daddy was a farmer, he owned 1700 acres of coastal property, which he grazed cattle, raised, pigs and grew vegetables. Like all little boys, I wanted to be just like my daddy … a farmer.

Some of my earliest memories was helping my father in the garden, digging the soil, watering the vegetables and planting seeds. One day my dad said we were going to plant some beans. I loved to stand in the garden, pick fresh beans and eat them raw, so as a little three-year-old boy, planting beans seemed like a life long dream come true!

We had prepared the garden bed; the soil was perfect, moist just below the surface. My dad created a small furrow the length of the garden bed with his finger. He then handed me the beans and showed me how to put them in the small furrow and push them just below the surface with my tiny finger. We then cover them up and lightly pressed the soil down on top of the seed.

A three year old has no concept of time. So immediately after planting the bean seeds I was looking for the bean plants. I waited, and waited … and waited. I went inside for dinner then raced back to the garden looking for the beans; I went to bed and slept all night, then bounced out of bed in the morning, raced out to the garden looking for the fully grown bean plants … still not a single sign of beans!

All day I continued to check the garden for beans, racing out excitedly and coming back disappointed. Finally after the second morning of eager anticipating I couldn’t stand it any longer … so I did what any impatient three-year-old boy would do.

I dug down to find the bean seeds to see what was going on!

As I dug down with my little hand early in the morning I broke off the bean shoot! I found the bean seed but now I had broken off the life of the seed. My doubt killed the bean plant, that seed could never produce beans.

Now I’m 47 years old and I often think back to that experience and the lesson I learned as a 3-year-old small crops grower! You may think this is a cute story yet most adults I have met have not yet learned this lesson.

So often we plant the seeds of thought, we decide we want something better from life, we decide on a better income, a nicer home, a new car, a better job, better health … we get the image of our new life in our mind and we get excited about it.

Every thought we have is just like a bean seed, we plant the seed in the garden bed of universal consciousness, and then we start looking for the results. We begin to question why we haven’t manifested the things we desire, doubt creeps in, and all of a sudden we dig up the seeds we planted, trying to look for evidence of life and we kill the very thing we desire.

All seed only becomes a fruitful plant by having absolute faith in the seed and its growth. Our job in the co-creation process is to plant the seed (decide what we want), have faith in its growth, and water and fertilize the plant with our words until it bears the fruit we desire!

Doubt steals, kills and destroys; faith gives abundant life.

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