The Power in the Seed [meme]

[Jayne]

[Sower]

36 minutes ago, Jayne said:

Wow, that is one cool and powerful word picture!

I always wonder the seeds I may have scattered. It's not the toil of the sower. It's the power in the seed.

Thanks Jayne.   Awesome..

A side note about seeds from biblical times.

Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith, and Hannah are date-palm trees, and although they were all planted in recent years, the seeds from which they germinated all came from ancient archaeological sites. These seeds, according to radiocarbon dating, were about 2,000 years old. They had waited two millennia to sprout.

An archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem allowed Sallon to sift through dusty boxes of plant material recovered from some of Israel’s most famous archaeological sites. She found plenty of seeds for her purpose. “They were in all various stages of disintegration,” Sallon says. “But some were in beautiful condition.” She picked 32 of the best-preserved seeds, and her collaborator Elaine Solowey planted them at a kibbutz in southern Israel. Solowey soaked the seeds in water and applied commercial plant hormones and fertilizer, but the protocol for planting them was essentially no different than for modern seeds.

The seeds of Judean date palms turn out to have remarkable longevity. A team led by Sarah Sallon, which planted these six trees, first tried in 2005 to germinate a 2,000-year-old seed from the ancient fortress of Masada. To the surprise and delight of Sallon and her colleagues, it sprouted, and they named that first date-palm tree Methuselah, who in the Bible lived to the age of 969.

[Jayne]

[kwikphilly]

Blessings Jayne...

 Love this, thank you for sharing not only the informative post but also the message in it!

 And that second one..... WOW! Worthy is the Precious Blood of the PERFECT LAMB!

 God Bless you TO Bless

With love in Christ, Kwik