Mustard Seeds and Words

  This is a mustard tree.  It is not small.  Birds can live here.  People can get shade here.

Guess what it grew from?  A seed so small that it makes a penny look huge.


  These are mustard seeds. 

Jesus gave thought to the size of the seed and the size of the tree.  He said that:

(Matthew 13:31)   The kingdom of heaven is like to a ^agrain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the ^abirds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

To me, this means that if we have a tiny amount of faith, but it's good and true, it will grow to become something mighty that others can benefit from.

Another time, Jesus said that if we had faith like a mustard seed, we could move mountains and nothing would be impossible to us.

"If ye have ^bfaith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this ^cmountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be ^dimpossible unto you."    --Matthew 17:20.

How does this relate to writing?

Well, mustard seeds are like words.  One word alone isn't strong, but if you string words together, you get ideas that change people, that change history, that change planets.

I do not want to waste any words.  I want to treat them like water-- precious, life-saving, yet plentiful.  I want to treat them like mustard seeds-- small, unintimidating, yet powerful if you nurture them faithfully.