Monday – Feast of St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr Gospel – John 12:24-26 Service with a Smile Zucchini Five years ago we hit the ‘garden jackpot’. We had 3 zucchini plants in our garden that year! 3 plants grown from 3 quite tiny seeds, each one barely a half-inch long. And yet, from those 3 plants, we made 40 loaves of zucchini bread, 2 dozen zucchini lemon cookies, 4 dozen zucchini chocolate muffins, and 1 zucchini blueberry cake. And that doesn’t include the 5 zucchinis still waiting to be cut up, much less the many that were still on the vine. Such little seeds! Such an abundance of life and productivity! Side note – this year in Tennessee, the harvest was rather underwhelming! But the baking shall continue!!! We are all a bit like the seeds in today’s Gospel. The life, the real life, lies inside the seed. And, in order for the life to germinate and grow, the seed has to die, to break open and let the life...