Vol. 2, Issue 6
Testimony, Story, and Seed Saving
Noonday Notes
Volume 2, Issue 6
June 19th, 2026
Conversations with three women planted the seeds for this week's reflection. Which seems fitting, because it was also three women who helped me plant garlic last November. This week, I finally clipped the garlic that had been curing in my garage, setting aside some for seed and the rest for distribution. Somewhere between sorting garlic and thinking about those conversations with amazing women, I found myself pulling threads of testimony, story, and seed saving.
A seed carries the story of what came before, but it is always future-focused. When we save seed, we continue something that was designed to bear fruit. The seed is evidence of what has already happened, but it also contains a promise of what is still to come.
What blows my mind is that a seed gives itself away so that it can become something larger than itself. The more successful a seed is, the less attention it receives. All eyes are on the fruit. The seed itself dissolves. It disappears into the soil. It decreases so that something greater can increase, like John said in his gospel (John 3:30).
Our testimonies are much the same. A testimony isn’t meant to preserve the past for nostalgia’s sake. It’s meant to bear witness and plant seeds. To testify is simply to tell what you’ve seen and experienced. It’s the story of what happened.
When I think about testimony in Scripture, I often think about Paul. His conversion story is epic and relatable. But since it was women this week that inspired this, I went to my girl Rahab. Mother to Boaz, our boy who appreciated devoted gleaner gal Ruth. All of which are part of Jesus’s lineage. But I digress.
Long story short, a couple of spies are on a recon to check out the walls of Jericho for an upcoming mission of marching around the walls and some other low key stuff (Joshua 6). Rahab knows what this means. She's heard the stories of parted seas and deliverance. She believes Israel's God is who He says He is, so she hides the spies on her roof, sneaks them out later, and negotiates mercy for her family (Joshua 2). She heard, she believed, she acted.
Like seeds, our stories are not meant to draw attention to ourselves. They are meant to disappear into the larger work God is doing. They are meant to point toward the fruit. That’s the power of testimony.
Both are acts of preservation. Both carry something forward. Both bear witness to what has been and what may yet come. A seed saved today may bear fruit weeks or years from now. A testimony shared today may take root in a heart, but you may never see the fruit. And yet, the story mattered.
What story are you carrying forward? What is your testimony?