The Flower Seeds and the Pots is based on Luke 8:5-8.
Once, a woman wanted a flower garden in her flat. So she bought some flower seeds, and planted them in pots the landlord had left. Some of the seeds fell out of her window onto the pavement below; of course, people walked all over them. Then pigeons came and scoffed the lot. Some of the pots she’d found were too shallow – the flower seedlings came up, but the thin soil, it didn’t hold enough water. When the sun shone, the plants dried up.
Now, some of the old soil in the pots was full of weed seeds, so when those flower seedlings tried to grow, they fought for growing space between the weeds. The weeds, they choked them and they never did produce any flowers. But some of the flowers the woman planted, they were planted in good pots, deep enough pots, pots with soil in them that wasn’t full of weeds. Those seedlings, they came up and they grew and grew and by the time they’d all grown they had hundreds of beautiful flowers.
Jesus looked at the people around him and called out, “Folks, you’ve all got ears. Use them.”
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