Everything Is Growing

This spring got off to a slow start but Mother Nature has put everything into high gear this past week. I was amazed with the growth in every corner of the garden and it seems that we made up for lost time. There is something magical about planting a tiny seed and after a week in the ground a plant appears with special characteristics.

Even more magical is the different seeds planted in the very same ground will grow and show a multitude of colours. As you wonder about the magic performed in your garden you have just realized one of the great lessons taught to us by Mother Nature.Growing seeds into plants is one tiny aspect of the power of nature.In trying to solve the great questions about the universe and the supreme power of the natural order we have become closer to the realization that we share a huge space in the universe with billions of other life forms.

Man is a strange animal who feels that they are above all other forms of life and have gone to great lengths to establish institutions such as churches and religious doctrine to make us believe we are masters of the universe and man somehow attempts to personify their power through doctrine.

If only we could attempt to harmonize our lives with nature and feel the rhythm of the natural order there would be far less frustration and discord among peoples of all stripes. I have felt for some time the lessons we could learn from the aboriginal people who see themselves as caretakers of the environment and sharing in the bounty of the earth. They see everything living as part of the whole and this theme is repeated in many cultures.

We can learn something from communicating with nature and it is all good.