The tulips, cardoon, and three trees.

Jesus speaking: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a man who planted good seed, but while he slept his enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat. They all grew together and the servants said,’ we thought you planted good seed, but look at all the weeds. Where did they come from?’ Jesus continuing the story said: ‘ An enemy has done this!’ The servants said : ‘ let us go and pull out all the weeds’. The answer was : ‘ No, by pulling out the weeds, you will take out the wheat. Let both grow together. At harvest time, I will say to the reapers ‘ Gather the weeds first,bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barns.’

Matthew 13: 24-30 ( Some of my wording read it for yourself).

It is sunny today. I put my hands into the earth of a black bucket, feeling for bulbs or other resting roots. I wanted space for the healthy Cardoon plant.  I then turned the small pot with healthy tulip leaves and the cardoon upside down. The cardoon had a long healthy root. This pot would soon be too small. A strange thing was there were no mature tulip bulbs , just small round ones with very good leaves. That is why I had thought the pot was empty when I hurridly planted the cardoon  cutting. The cardoon seeds  I had planted hadn’t   germinated, and I was in a hurry to save something from the last plant out of three.

I now know that tulips multiply by producing baby bulbs or offsets around the main bulb. This pot may well have stood where it was for years. The main bulb must be used up, leaving baby bulbs strong enough to produce good leaves.

The three trees:

Three trees that don’t line up for a photograph because they are in an arc.

Let us travel with the word arc.

‘ The earth, together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.’

Nicolaus Copernicus

‘ The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.’

Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘ Change isn’t optional, and creation isn’t something that happened a long time ago and then ended. It’s ongoing, and we are invited to be part of it. The question for us is:

‘ What will we create in this new day?’

How will we nourish the things that matter?

And

stand in the way of injustice in the small ways that add up to the arc of history?

You are invited to participate in the creation of this day.’

David La Motte  Press on his name to hear him speak at a Ted Talk last year.

Take care,

Sandy 🙂