Great Gardening Tips For Spring!
(I thought this was clever)
It is almost gardening time...
Time to sow peas of mind,
Lettuce be thankful,
Turnip to help our neighbour,
and always make thyme for loved ones!
On Spiritual Friendship
I was pondering some true friends in a story Luke tells in chapter 5 (after listening to an excellent lecture I downloaded by Barbara Mutch), who were trying to get into a house meeting Jesus was speaking at. She described how the pharisees were already there with their critical thinking at work and so many others jammed shoulder to shoulder these friends could not get in. People were spilling outside the doorway trying to hear. These friends had brought a fellow along who was so sick he was on a stretcher. Stumped, one of the friends spied a set of stairs leading up to the roof where the family cooled off in the evening breeze coming off the lake. ...Here’s where I saw myself in the story and started to laugh until I cried: They decided to try to haul the mat up the steps, leveraging it carefully so as to not dump their cargo off the stairs. Once atop the roof they then got the goofy idea to pry off the ceiling tiles and made a hole. ...
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