Seed of My Heart
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Thunder rolled in the East and became much louder as he opened the door and stepped onto the porch. As he began sipping his coffee, the rain water dripped predictably from the porch cover onto his shirt. The new summer rain was gentle and warm on this soggy morning. Through the breaking mist on the horizon emerged a red ball; ‘a sweet fire in a soft rain,’ he thought.
Skip had now made his way to his master’s side and sat quietly staring at the herds of sheep and goats. In what seemed dark and unknown to the old man, now lie sleeping out there somewhere – ‘soon, it would awake and bring change; and it was coming soon,’ he thought. ‘He and his dog Skip would be out of a job when this season was over.’
Darker clouds birthed themselves from large to gigantic proportions; their last effort at inflating themselves before they dumped their appointed cargo. They would be gone in another day and the sun would lay on the mountain once again. The grass and thistle flower would soon twist upward toward the bold blueness of summer – the final summer for the old man, his last chance on the mountain. After that, it would be on to a different place known only to his maker.
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About the Book
Seed of My Heart began as a short story with the sole purpose to maintain communication with my eldest granddaughter, Madeline. I would write a few paragraphs every week, and, as I did, something happened. What began as a carefree story about the summer adventures of an old man and his grandniece sprouted into a deeper revelation about the richness of a life lived in ordinary obscurity.
The life of the main character, a single man of many years, and his borrowed, beloved family became an opportunity to reveal the power working through us when God’s planted seeds become watered by the Holy Spirit.
It is a story that I hope sheds light on the human misadventure, with all its folly and heartbreak, but with a spirit that is renewed in the dark of night by a whisper in the heart. The story provides an example of the rich blessings produced by a walk with the Lord—just a ministry of one seemingly missing in the dust of days gone by, a single old man treading faithfully into the inevitable sunset.
In the end, the old, weathered soul, winnowed through years of harsh wind and hard living, now finds himself on a majestic mountain for a final time. He is there with a small band of sheep, three dogs, a horse, and an aging eagle. The adventure of his final summer and of his last days on the mountain finds completion in a place of amazing grace.
About the Author
Robert K. Stevenson began studying the book of Genesis in January of 2006 at age sixty-two. At the same time, He began reaching over the horizon of his on-again, off-again religious tradition. He describes himself as an ordinary guy in an ordinary town, making life more ordinary than necessary. That winter, he took a step of faith and began praying for a complete stranger. On the very last day of March of that year, the Lord changed his heart. Much of what occurred since that day may well see light in another book in the future. He currently serves on prayer teams at church.