Seed

        'Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies it remains only a single seed. 

But if it dies it produces many seeds'       John 12:24

     Mustard, wheat, coriander, hyssop, cumin, rue, nettle, olive, fig, grape, almond, anise, flax, crocus, lily, nigella, pine, palm, pomegranate, sage, saffron,

                  ... all bursting with potential, all waiting to bring life, a tiny packet of possibility.

Yet what possibility, what cost and for what purpose?

The cost is an easy answer, the seed is cleaved in two as the shoot and root emerge, one plunging down into the darkness to find sustenance and nutrition, the other pushing through soil upward, towards light to allow photosynthesis to play its part -

      

          2n CO₂ + 2n DH₂ + photons → 2(C H₂      2(CH₂O)_n + 2n DO

                                                                                               ...literally energy from light.

        'I am the light of the world'

                                     'put your trust in this light'

                'if you follow me you will have the light of life'

If the purpose is to bring light then the possibility is to generate life. But first the seed must fall into the ground and die - the cost.

There is a purpose to this death, this is no mistake, no folly, nor happen-stance, there is a lesson and a pattern, a natural/unnatural order. To hold on too tight has potential to smother, to extinguish, to snuff. What is cherished and loved must be set free, abandoned to the elements, allowed to be what it is, to fall to the ground, gone to earth, to be cleaved in two; and, in time, reach upwards toward light Bursting with potential and possibilities,

Seed.