Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
