A Wonder of Creation

Dear Friends in Christ -

I've been watching my garden grow. It's a daily miracle to see what has grown and what has faded due to leaf blight or bug invasion. Hopes, frustrations, joys, agrivations, all tied to a little plot of dirt with things growing in it. A microcosom of life.

There are many things that we didn't plant in our garden plot this year; one of them was strawberries. We still wanted some of those delicious berries, though, so last week I went with my family and my friend Irene to Jones Farm. We picked as many as we could carry, and the result was DELICIOUS . . . jam, pie, frozen berries, and topping for ice cream. WOW!!!

It wasn't until after we had jammed and frozen and pied our way through the day that I sat down to put my feet up and to read the "Barrels of Strawberry Recipe Fun" brochure from the farm. And I learned something I didn't know: "Botanically, strawberries are not even berries at all, but members of the rose family." So basically, when I'm eating a strawberry, I'm eating the flower part of a rose. Wow! Knowing that fact makes sense of the experience I have through my senses; I get the same kind of intense pleasure from smelling a rose that I get from smelling and eating a strawberry. Mmmmmmmmmm . . . a wonder of Creation.

Hope you're enjoying some of the wonders of Creation this summer, too.
Blessings,
Janet+