Vol. 2, Issue 16
Noonday Notes
Volume 2 , Issue 16
September 25th, 2026
Everything around us is telling us it’s fall. The drinks, the decor, the sports, even the moon. The Fall Equinox was this past Tuesday and I took 3 showers because the day was so hot and I spent most of it outside sweating behind my knees and under my bra. Gross. I check the forecast compulsively and obsessively these days, and the goalpost of a cooldown keeps moving. Double rainbows and rain showers were not in the forecast this week but I’ll take those as a win.
Instead of harvesting, we’ve been planting. Not so much me, but kids, which is how I like it. All sorts of things have been on my human mind this week regarding seeds and soil. Like what it means to be a human and not a robot, to be made from dust not data, sanctification as a seed and redemption as the harvest. Super chill stuff.
I found myself (again) in a letter from Paul to those pesky Corinthians. Specifically, Chapter 15 where he talks about the resurrection body. “What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.” And, “what you sow is not the body that is to be.”
A seed doesn’t look like its final result, nor should we.
The process a seed goes through underground seems analogous to sanctification. The seed doesn’t sow itself or raise itself. It is acted upon, willingly obedient. Its old self dies. It is affected by rain and sun, and the care we provide it. We pull weeds of sin around it so it can grow and wrestle “cosmic powers” on its behalf. Spiritual warfare in the garden y’all.
Like seeds, we are always growing towards the harvest, towards the redemption. And at that time if we look the same as the seed we put in the ground, we haven’t gone through the process. We haven’t gone through the weathering and the seasons, the hardships and grief, the learning through our own sin and forgiveness, reconciliation and all the things the field of life gives us to learn and grow from.
The ultimate goal is to be of dust and heaven (verse 49). Paul says, “What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.” (1 Corinthians 15:42-44)
In the not too distant future the trumpet will sound and it will be time to harvest the broccoli, kale, collards, beans, beets, and carrots we just planted. As Eugene writes in The Message for 1 Corinthians 15:40, “...we’re only looking at pre-resurrection “seeds”- who can imagine what the resurrection “plants” will be like!”
What do you imagine the resurrection plant of your life to look like at harvest time?