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Are you hungry for hope? I recommend you sit near some young green
beans plants. It’s a wonder in early
summer… one morning the beans are barely poking through the ground, and by the
end of the day they’ve grown 3 inches.
I’m not exaggerating! I’ve often
thought it would be fun to position a camera with a timer by the beans. It would be thrilling to watch a day’s worth
of photos of the beans growing! They are
strong, persistent, determined, and eager.
Now that it’s early November, the bean plants have
done all they are going to do for the year: grown, produced endless fruit, fed
the soil with nitrogen, dried up and been plowed under. Yet their spiritual lessons remain with
us. Are you hungry for hope? Sometimes I need to see other people’s
strength and persistence to remember my own. And sometimes I need to work as part of a determined and eager team to
re-energize my own potential. As I dream
of our next garden season at the Common Ground Garden, beans and all, I am
grateful and thrilled for our communal determination to continue the
Benedictine tradition of sustainable agriculture in Central Minnesota.
Kate Ritger, OblSB
Common Ground Garden Production Manager
Thursday,
November 13th is Give to the Max Day, an opportunity for donors to give on-line to their favorite
non-profits. This year the Sisters of
the Order of Saint Benedict are raising funds for the Common Ground Garden. Donated funds will help us upgrade the
electrical connection to our barn, expand cool storage space, improve working
and education space, and dream toward a winter greenhouse.
Thank you for your support and for sharing our hope.
Nice, Kate. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWe're so glad that Kate has been able to share some of the spiritual aspects of the Garden through our blogsite. S. Karen Rose
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