and spiritually and emotionally and I just could not bring myself to start any of my seeds. It was the first time in all these years I didn’ t have it in me to do it.”
Culver said she started praying for God to help her get through that season,
“ One of the verses I kept falling on was to‘ Go forth in my weeping.’ When you go forth in weeping, and you sow seeds in weeping, you will reap a harvest, so I went on and I didn’ t do vegetables, but I filled my large area that I normally planted vegetables, I pulled it up and prepared the ground and I just scattered wildly a lot of flower seeds.”
Culver said she thought the colors would just bring her joy as spring started, that she could sit and enjoy them without all the work that goes into doing a vegetable garden.
“ The flowers started blooming and we started having people come out to visit our home,” she said.“ One set of visitors was my husband’ s relatives, and they were engaged and had all these plans for their wedding. This was in mid-April and their plans were to get married at the end of May. They saw the flowers, and they loved the view from the hilltop we live on. They asked us if they could cancel their plans and get married out in the
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