Gardens along the way...15...zucchinis...

Gardens along the way...15...zucchinis....

Lock your car doors quickly... before someone fills your car with their extra zucchinis...the garden is overflowing, the refrigerator is full...now someone is trying to pawn their abundance on some unsuspecting soul ...and more zucchinis are coming...

As a child we didn’t grow zucchinis in our garden, and we didn’t eat them because we didn’t grown them...(we raised vegetables that could be canned for frozen for winter use)...it wasn’t until my twenties that they entered our family’s diet...and then it was zucchini bread, zucchini cake, zucchini chocolate cake(the best), then it evolved into summer squash casserole, ratatouille, hiding zucchini in anything...enchiladas, soup, whatever...now we’ve added more and more recipes, roasted, sautéed, etc...a versatile vegetable like we added cauliflower rice to everything....

My zucchini plants this year are producing an abundance of their long green fruit...I have given them away, grated, sliced, diced, noodled, chunked them, stuffed them, sautéed them, pickled them, roasted them...and they just keep on giving...for that I am grateful....

Something positive...in a year of turmoil....

God gave Adam and Eve the garden, provided provisions for the boat for Noah, He later provided manna in the desert walk from Egypt to the land of promise for 40 years, gave them a land that they hadn’t seen or planted, fed Elijah, Jesus fed the multitudes...

He has provided all over the world the foods that the people eat, whether bananas in the tropics, grains in the the plains, rice in the paddies, meat of various kinds...He has provided for our bodies...we may work for it, harvest it, weed it, plant it...but He still gave it as a gift for our nourishment...He knows our need...

I have been watching a food show of a well known chef traveling the world,  finding the foods that the various ethnic groups eat...what a vast variety...what creativity our Creator has provided...from the sea and land...the harvests they find and cultivate...

I am so glad we have a Father who knows our needs, provides with his creativity food for our bodies and Food for our souls through His Word...we do not live by bread alone, but by the very Word of God...

Thank YOU...

Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds. ” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:11-12 

He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 8:3 

11 Give us today our daily bread.

Matthew 6:11