Thursday Tune-up: Fool's February

When we lived in Tennessee there would come a weekend each February when the cold weather would give way to such gorgeous warmth that some believed it to be spring. It was so convincing that many who were tired of being housebound all winter would get out the rototillers, spades, and seeds for a bit of glorious gardening. I was one of those folks the first year we lived there. Being a girl from northern climes I didn't know any better. Then one of the men in our church told me that I had just succumbed to "Fool's February" and would pay for my error shortly. He was right.

It didn't help anything that the garden stores and co-operatives put all their luscious tender veggies and flowers out at such an early date.   I might be a fool but the retailers were not! They knew that anyone who bought those plants would be back again a few months later once the frosts of Moaning March killed the tender plants. The gardeners would be back in At it Again April when the real planting could be done.

It has been many years since I thought of Fool's February. It came to mind again the other day when I thought about some of the things I wish to see growing in my life in 2012. Instead of being a February Fool I am guilty of being a New Year's Nut. I planted the seeds of a few spiritual, physical, and emotional goals and though they are not dead some of them are looking a bit sickly.

Do you remember the seeds of change you planted in your life fewer than 7 weeks ago? Have you nurtured and protected them through the daily storms or have you allowed your goals to die?

You can begin again. I can begin again.

Remind yourself of the goals you want to see bearing fruit in your life. Plant those good seeds again, nurture them tenderly, and harvest an abundant crop! No need to wait until At it Again April to replant. Let's make this a Fabulous February! Here are a few scriptures to encourage you toward the harvest of a bumper crop:


7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Gal 6:7-9 (KJV)

6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: 9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. 10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness)
2 Cor 9:6-10 (KJV)

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Gal 5:22-23 (KJV)