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\"09-19-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Howdy Prodigal,\u00a0 you are covered in dirt and sweat.<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Yeah, I am just tending to these flowers.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 They look beautiful!\u00a0 I have a story about another garden that I want to share with you.<\/p>\n

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Elizabeth Sherrill\u00a0 shared this story in the Daily Guideposts<\/p>\n

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A mile from our house is a roadside restaurant in a spectacular garden setting.\u00a0 For years, on my morning walk, I’ve stopped to gaze over the hedge at beds of roses, peonies, asters, an acre and more of color changing with the seasons.\u00a0 Who couldn’t have a beautiful garden, I’ve thought, with the gardening staff they must have here!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’d always gone by too early to see any of them at work.\u00a0 Then one day, when I had to handle a big mailing project single-handedly, I didn’t get out to walk till afternoon.\u00a0 As I passed the garden, a stocky middle-age man came from the restaurant basement carrying a tray of begonias.\u00a0 Seeing me stop, he waved me inside the hedge.\u00a0 He had to spell his last name before I caught it:\u00a0 Joseph Csomor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Are you the head gardener?”\u00a0 I asked.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Csomor shook his head.\u00a0 “Just the assistant.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

He’d come here from Hungary twenty-seven years ago, he went on.\u00a0 The restaurant had hired him as a cleaning man, but when he was through sweeping and scrubbing, he’d spent his free time digging around the roots of the potted geraniums that were the only flowers on the place.\u00a0 Seeing the geraniums thrive, the owner had let him plant some rosebushes out back.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My puzzlement grew as Mr. Csomor told how year after year he’d planted a lilac bush here, a marigold border there, until the garden became the showplace it is today.\u00a0 If he’d done all this…..”Then what does the head gardener do?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Csomor pointed a stubby finger skyward.\u00a0 “He makes the flowers grow.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What do I do?<\/p>\n

I am just an assistant.<\/p>\n

What does the leader do?<\/p>\n

He’s the one who makes people grow.<\/p>\n

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I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.<\/p>\n

John 15:1<\/p>\n

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www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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