My brother mowed the lawn yesterday.
I stepped outside in the morning to empty some trash, in time to hear a mockingbird giving his spring recital. I had seen him quietly in the hedge in earlier weeks, listening.
I set up the little greenhouse in the most perfect temperatures, and gentle breeze.
I am trying to get some seeds sprouting in little containers, and I was able to just sit outside and do some.
I had a bedroom window open all night.
The cats have greatly enjoyed all of this.
I made blueberry muffins.
"Humanity's task continues God's own creation, filling the realms that God established, extending and elaborating good order within the creation, and exercising beneficent rule over its creatures. Humankind both had to rule over and to share the creation with other creatures.
The original creation is good, yet much remains to be done. God creates, commissions, empowers, and equips humanity to complete what he has started; we are a means of his continued creation and providence."
- Alastair Roberts, from Plough magazine, Spring 2025
I am glad spring has sprung at last! I still haven't been able to do much gardening because of all my dealings with solicitors and probate and selling Mum's house. At the moment I am engrossed in packing up hundreds and hundreds of her books which we are donating to charity. No-one wants to buy them in bulk and the thought of sending them off one by one for evermore gives me the horrors. We have found a charity who (I think and hope) is willing to accept them and is also willing to come and collect them all!! Probably 30 or more boxes! The image of you sitting outside and planting seeds in the warmth is lovely!
ReplyDeleteClare, my gosh, what a job! But it's great that this group will come and get them.
DeleteYes! "Beneficent rule." I appreciate that. I finished all of the first mowing this week. So here we go...
ReplyDeleteYes, we want to respect our fellow creatures, not lord it over them.
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