How do we nourish the seed?

In Alma 33 the people ask Alma how they can nourish this seed? Alma, as any good teacher would, refers back to scriptures. He quotes Zenos, Zenock and Moses. He begins by talking about prayer, Zenos pretty much thanks God for hearing him in all the many many places he has cried out from, the wilderness, in his field, when he prayed for his enemies, in his house, closet and so on. I think the point was that to nourish our seed we have to turn to the Lord. Turn to him in prayer, always and everywhere. At the end of this chapter he talks about Moses. He says "a type was raised up in the wilderness, that whosoever would look upon it might live." He continues to say many looked and lived, some were so so hardened they just wouldn't look and they perished.

How crazy is that...all you would have to do is look at something and you would be saved, you would live. Or you could decide that it wouldn't work so you just wouldn't look at all. CRAZY! But when we stop and think about it...how do we apply this in our lives? What things are we "not looking" at because we have no faith in it. How could we actually "live" because we decided to take that leap of faith and look. I know there are times when I just dont' believe something would happen or someone would believe me...so I just didn't try. But I am happy for the times that I just shoved my disbelief, fears, pride and hardness of heart in the trash and focused on faith. Those are the great memories where I can really see God's hand in my life. Where I see my own personal miracles. When I lived in Japan as a missionary I had developed a friendship with one of the girls in our English class that we taught. I had decided to ask her if she wanted to learn about the gospel. But I was nervous...for some weird reason I forget that there are people searching for truth and there are people who really want to know what we have to teach. I remember the exact moment when I gulped down my fears of being inadequate to actually teach about gospel and just asked her. Turns out that she had been waiting for someone to ask. She was dying to learn and she did. We are still friends to this day and I am thankful...so thankful that I decided to experiment on the word...to just be faithful that I was doing was God wanted me to do.

Questions to ponder: What are we avoiding today? How can we better our lives by "looking" so that we might live...really live? Will I write down the things that I need to face in order to grow? Am I praying in my home, in my closets, in the field and in the wilderness?