Oh Zucchini. Every year I plant it. Year after year I savor the first harvest. Every year I cannot find enough recipes to use up my zucchini before I get sick of it.* And yes, every year my neighbors hide from me and lock their car doors to avoid “zucchini drops.” There are some things in life that we simply can have too much of. (The bread recipe below proves my point).
I fear that sometimes our “spiritual diet” can resemble a summer of zucchini. We get focused on a single spiritual discipline or on a certain routine, and we lose sight of the diversity that is at our finger tips. We can get ourselves into a spiritual rut, and assume that other people should be doing their devotions the same way we do them. Or, we can get so sick of our current spiritual practices that we discard all of them to perpetually find something new. That would be like giving up completely on zucchini. Gasp.
Zucchini has its place in life—but it has to be a part of a well-rounded diet. Yet, life is not all about consumption. This includes our spiritual lives.
Think about our call to discipleship. We are called to be a growing disciple, one that is taking in a well-rounded spiritual diet. Yet, being a disciple necessarily means that I am simultaneously a disciple-maker (Matthew 28:18-20). Every one of us are called to share our faith and invest in others. Are we?
Life is more than consuming zucchini. Life is also far more than sharing the overabundance of our homegrown zucchini patch to unsuspecting neighbors. We have the privilege of living as disciple-makers and having Kingdom impact as we join God in His good work. Every day.
A New Zucchini Bread
- Carl’s award winning bread: Zucchini, Cucumber, Cheez It, Cotton Candy Pop Corn, Spicy Queso Pop Corners, SW Airlines Graham Crackers, aged yogurt, walnut, date bread.
- Bread machines are amazing