Poison Weed
My dad made an interesting comment the other day....he said that he knows a lot, perhaps too much, about my lawn and garden. Since I write about these two things a lot in my blog, and he reads my blog, he is going to hear a lot about my lawn and garden. Kind of like if you lay out in the sun too long on a summer day without protection, you are going to get sunburned. But, yardwork and gardening are the primary ways I relate to the more physical nature of life. I am not mechanically-inclined (but declined) and don't play a musical instrument. So, the yard and the garden become rich fodder for observations about life in general. I have to wonder if our inability to follow the Gospel is somewhat because we are so detached from the cycles of life and growth in the realm of agriculture. Farmers are spiritual people...you have to be. You can only do so much when you farm to get good crops; other things, like rain, are out of your control. I know that with modern agriculture, even some of...