Tomato seeds

 Tomato  Seeds

This morning I was blanching and pealing tomatoes in preparation to store them in the freezer for winter.   A memory of over 50 years came to me.  As a small girl I use to love going out and eating the ripe tomatoes off the vine.  I remember how luscious they tasted and how they squished out over my small mouth and ran down my clothes, and knew I was going to be in big trouble for staining my clothes.  I also remember trying to clean myself up the best I could while looking at the little tiny tomato seeds, and wondering if these tiny little seeds had baby tomatoes in them.  I took a few in the house and tried prying them open, only to discover there was not a baby tomato in them.  How could a tomato grow from that?  It was so small I really couldn’t see anything.   It looked like only the outside of the seed I had cut up.  Where did that  tomato come from?

I learned later that a tomato seed held the potential to create a tomato plant which would then create thousands of tomatoes.  Just the potential, with many components needed to be met before a tomato could appear.  One of those components was light. 

I thought how much I am like that little seed.  Had someone dissected me when I was just a little seed they wouldn’t have seen anything either.  However, given the right timing and the right environment I appeared.  My parents took care of the environment and training in my youth.  I have had to do my own training since.  I  too have sought for the light….just like the little tomato seed needed light by stretching toward the heavens, the light in my life has come from Jesus Christ.  With that light, and with the truths I have discovered from the scriptures and prophets I too have unlimited potential.