How does your garden grow?

I am pleased to say that our first attempt at vegetable gardening is successful! We have radishes, lettuce, and green beans all producing in great quantities. There is also promise yet for a crop of corn, carrots, cucumbers, and onions. What amazes me is that a month ago, everything lookes so straggly that I was sure our garden would never survive. Yet it not only survived, but thrived.
This is such a reminder of how our own children grow. There are times when it seems that they will never "grow and prosper"; but if we give them enough patience, time, and love, they will prosper in ways we could never have imagined but God had planned all along. My 2nd child is a perfect example of this. From a child who didn't speak anything but gibberish for three years, to now a very eloquent and bright 5 year old. All those moments of worry, appointments with specialists, and fears that he was "delayed" were wiped away when out of the blue, child #2 begins reading outloud and asking what every word says.
Our crops produced when they were designed to, and my son talked at the time when God planned. Now if I can continue to remember to let my children develop in God's time and not mine.