In order to grow and become beautiful, you must be planted…so a gardener comes and plants you into some lovely rich soil…For a long time it seems like nothing is happening, you are warm and safe in the soil....
Rain comes and it starts to feed you, you push out a little root to drink in the rain…a bit like using a straw to drink your favourite drink!
You are full now and something exciting happens…you start to grow, pushing aside your outer casing you make for the surface…slowly you break through the surface of the soil popping out just a little green shoot…
Over the next few months the sun warms you and the rain nourishes you, and the soil holds you safe…
You start to grow and grow…a bud forms
And one day, when the sun is strong and warm and you have reached high up into the sky you turn to face the sun…the bud opens up…a beautiful sunflower full of special seeds…
Here is a secret…Gods words are like special seeds, when we talk to him, and listen to him, when we do what his words say and hear his promises, he helps us to grow into the beautiful people he has designed us to be….
