Taking Notice

Next year the land is to rest, so this year, I'm taking notice of just how many things the land produces without my cultivation skills.  There are a number of broad leaf herbs that are edible, so salad looks quite probable.  Then of course, there are the berries on the lane.  The dewberries are just now ripening, so it will be a couple more weeks before the blackberries are ready.  The wild blackberry vines literally line the lane.

Scripture tells us there will be rain in its season and an abundant harvest the sixth year, if we are obedient.  Adonai states there will be enough to eat through the seventh year, have seeds to plant, and still be sustained until the harvest of the eighth year.  I've heard a number of people comment on just how lush their gardens are this year!  Scripture also refers to eating meat that year of Shemitah.  I'm hoping the community will begin to gather and we'll feast on a fatted calf!

In the meantime, I am taking note of just how many wonderful herbs and plants our Creator made that are indeed edible and undoubtedly healthier than most of the fare we work so hard to prepare and make palatable.  I'm truly excited to be given this opportunity now that I finally have an understanding of Abba's timing in this matter.

It's a glorious thing to know that YHWH doesn't change.  That means what He said thousands of years ago, still stands today.  As we are watching so many evils coming to pass that have been prophesied, I take comfort in knowing His promises continue to stand.
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:  Prophet of Holy Scripture

  And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and G-d saw that it was good.  Torah of Holy Scripture