Salt of the Earth

Over the past few days I’ve been thinking about the power of salt. What it does for plants…How it can soothe tired feet when added to warm water at the end of a long day… How it can heal…How it can flavor food in the best of ways – or the worst.

Salt can help give water a jump-start when you’re trying to boil it. Add it to the soil at the base of a dying plant and it can help nourish the roots, making it thrive again. Add a little Epsom salt to plants that are already thriving and it can keep them growing strong – producing beautiful and robust rose blooms and beautiful, flavorful tomatoes.

Salt is good stuff y’all – really good! Used correctly (i.e., moderate it in your food so you don’t drive up your blood pressure), it is truly one of our greatest gifts from nature.

In light of all of the things happening in the world, I wanted to remind us all of the following words:

“You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless.” Matthew 5:13 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/mat.5.13.NLT

Yup – that powerful precious gift? That’s us. We are the salt of the Earth. We have the power to make things boil, thrive, taste better and heal. When we don’t use it correctly, well… re-read the text above and you can interpret for yourself what will happen. We become…pointless.

Use this precious gift wisely, friends. Be the salt of the Earth that you were created to be. A whole lot of good can come from it ❤️.