Jeff Parrott
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1,309 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Sep
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We pray all of this because of your grace and for your glory and in your story of life and love.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
Welcome to Ten Minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.
I'm Jeff Perrett.
Sometimes the greatest picture of beauty comes from the greatest places of brokenness and barrenness.
In World War I, the landscape of Europe was devastated by the impact of artillery shelling and trench digging.
If you look at images from then in the First World War, you can see the absolute desolation and the barrenness of the marred forests and mangled fields.
The originally peaceful landscape was just smashed to pieces.
Now, given the tragic loss of human life in the fields of World War One, it's kind of hard to imagine any physical spaces that have been more broken and more barren.
amidst this broken and barren landscape, it seemed like beauty was buried for good.
How could beauty possibly exist in a place like that?
But in reality, something beautiful actually was breaking through the ground for all to see.
There's this particular flower, the poppy, that can lie dormant in the ground for decades, even up to a hundred years.
Now here's the thing poppy seeds only grow when disrupted from dormancy and showered with light, the light that begins the process of germination.
These seeds need to be disturbed in order to grow.
Now during that chaotic destruction of World War One, portions of the broken and the barren landscape of Europe were actually being cultivated.
The digging and the shelling woke up the dormant poppy seeds, exposing them to the light that would display life and beauty.
And so in the midst of the brokenness and the barrenness of these fields, the presence of beauty did erupt, as a canvas of red poppies blanketed the landscape.
It's this amazing picture of life persisting in even the most lifeless places.
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