Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 1384 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
What Are You Planting? – Meditation Monday
Wisdom – the final frontier to true knowledge. Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy. Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1384 of our Trek, and it is time for Meditation Monday. Taking time to relax, refocus, and reprioritize our lives is crucial in order to create a living legacy. For you, it may just be time alone for quiet reflection. You may utilize structured meditation practices. In my life, Meditation includes reading and reflecting on God’s Word and in prayer. It is a time to renew my mind, refocus on what is most important, and making sure that I am nurturing my soul, mind, and body. As you come along with me on our trek each Meditation Monday, it is my hope and prayer that you, too, will experience a time for reflection and renewing of your mind.
Spring is the time for planting flowers and gardens. Many of us engage in this relaxing and enjoyable past time. Today let us meditate on:
What Are You Planting?
Last weekend Paula and I planted our flowers along the edge of the sunporch, in the antique planter beside the back door, in the five large pots adorning the front porch, and in the three hanging pots along the front porch. This year we planted all Impatiens since they grow well in part shade, and their flowers last all summer and into the fall. They take a while to grow out entirely, but are full and pretty most of the summer. Our peonies, which line the outer edge of the front porch, and along the old ‘fence line’ on the backside of our house, are full of buds and will be blooming soon also. In addition to the flowers, we also planted four tomato plants, four sweet red peppers, two each of cucumbers and zucchinis, and a patch of spearmint. We enjoyed it and look forward to reaping the rewards for our efforts.
Our efforts are an example of the Biblical and universal law of planting and harvesting. It is as universal as the law of gravity. This law is mentioned in Genesis 8:22. As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.
Planting and cultivating a crop is backbreaking work. Ask any farmer who has done intense farming. It is not for the faint of heart, or those who anticipate instant results. Farmers persevere because they know the joy of the harvest. This emotional rollercoaster of farming is described in Psalm 126:5-6:
Those who plant in tears
will harvest with shouts of joy.
They weep as they go to plant their seed,
but they sing as they return with the harvest.
It does require hard work with no real guarantees, but to anticipate the harvest, you must first do the work. Proverbs 20:4
Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.
Another fundamental truth is that you will harvest only what you plant. We will not expect corn from our tomato plants, nor apples from our zucchini plants. We expect to harvest what we planted. The same is true for all aspects of life. This concept is described well in Galatians 6:7-9
Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.
Regardless of whether you do any flower or vegetable gardening this year, let us commit to do Gardening for Good by planting the following:
Plant three rows of peas:
Peace of mind
Peace of heart
peace of soul
Plant four rows of squash:
Squash gossip
Squash indifference
Squash grumbling
Squash selfishness
Plant four rows of lettuce:
Lettuce be faithful
Lettuce be kind
Lettuce be patient
Lettuce really love one another
Plant three rows of turnips:
Turnip for meetings
Turnip for service
Turnip to help one another
Water freely with patience
Cultivate with love
There is much fruit in your garden
Because you reap what you sow.
To conclude our garden…we must have thyme
Thyme for each other
Thyme for family
Thyme for friends and especially
Thyme for GOD
Let us meditate on gardening for good and gardening for God this week.
That is a wrap for today’s Meditation, next week; we will continue our trek on Meditation Monday as we take time to reflect on what is most important in creating our living legacy. On tomorrow’s trek, we will explore another wisdom quote. This 3-minute wisdom supplement will assist you in becoming healthy, wealthy, and wise each day. Thank you for joining me on this trek called life. Encourage your friends and family to join us and then come along tomorrow for another day of ‘Wisdom-Trek, Creating a Legacy.’ 
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Thank you for allowing me to be your guide, mentor, and most importantly, I am your friend as I serve you through this Wisdom-Trek podcast and journal.
As we take this Trek of life together, let us always:
- Live Abundantly (Fully)
- Love Unconditionally
- Listen Intentionally
- Learn Continuously
- Lend to others Generously
- Lead with Integrity
- Leave a Living Legacy Each Day
I am Guthrie Chamberlain….reminding you to ’Keep Moving Forward,’ ‘Enjoy your Journey,’ and ‘Create a Great Day…Everyday’! See you tomorrow!
It seems that there is an announcement every few days of a well-known actor, musician, or sports celebrity that has died recently. Most were not Covid-19 related, and is probably just a sign of the times with so many baby boomers reaching the end of their natural life. I am afraid that I have one more to announce today. It is the death of our beloved Pillsbury Doughboy. I know that all of us morn his passing.
Doughboy is survived by his wife Play Dough, three children: John Dough, Jane Dough, and Dosey Dough, plus they had one in the oven. His elderly father, Pop Tart, also survived him.
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The book of Acts picks up the New Testament story after the resurrection of Jesus. The book opens with the resurrected Christ giving his disciples instructions on spreading the good news of the cross, and his resurrection in the familiar verse Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere-in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
The incredible events of Pentecost are something with which virtually all Christians are acquainted. As Jesus promised, the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples, enabling them to speak in the languages of the multitude of Jews who had come to Jerusalem from every nation. This miracle resulted in thousands of conversions to belief in Jesus as the risen Messiah, which in turn meant that new believers would return to every nation to spread the word. But while all this is familiar, its Old Testament context is habitually overlooked.
The list of disinherited nations is given to us in Genesis 10, the “table” of the known nations at the time. If you were to look at a map of those nations, they would extend from the Persian Gulf (the area of Babylon) in the east to Tarshish (modern-day Spain) in the west. At the time of the writing of Genesis 10, Tarshish was the westernmost landmass known.
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You may have heard of the phrase when referring to a person or leader, that is his True North, and this is what it means.
If you are a Christ-follower, then your True North must be defined by God’s Word. In our wisdom quote for today, J.I. Packer is correct. If you do not study and apply God’s Word to your life, you will be like a compass that is broken where the needle just randomly swings one way and then another. You will end up stumbling and bumbling through life. It will be the same as being blind, or at least blindfolded. You will have no real sense of direction or understanding of what is around you. Your decision-making ability will be significantly impaired. So follow your True North, which is based on God’s Word.
That’s a wrap for today’s Wisdom Unplugged quote. If you would like free access to my database of over 11,000 inspirational quotes, the link is available on the main page of Wisdom-Trek.com. Just as you enjoy these nuggets of wisdom, encourage your friends and family to join us and then come along tomorrow for another day of ‘Wisdom-Trek, Creating a Legacy.’ 
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