Seriously…why would I try to say something when someone else has already said it so. much. better.
Can I recommend this?
“Scripture is rife with the metaphor of God as gardener (seriously, it’s everywhere). So is it any wonder that when I turn my compost pile and look with awe at how my table scraps have been transformed into rich black soil, that I’m moved by a mystical sense of communion? Or when I raise a chicken from a hatchling, caring for it, feeding it, tending to its welfare, should I wonder that I weep when I find it’s been attacked by a predator and has to be put out of its suffering? …
Each morning when I wake, I am the celebrant in a liturgy that leads me through the sacrament of Creation. …
Among my little flock, I am at once priest and parishioner. They minister to me, I to them. Together we are co-participants in Creation, gardener and garden, watching, waiting, working toward a Garden yet to come. World without end. Amen.”
Pete Peterson
Yeah. What he said.
