Dependence

'Have patience with everything that remains unresolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.'                    -Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to A Young Poet

We are so dependent on the weather, what we cannot control.  So I water and wait and hope that my newly planted vegetables and herbs will grow, grow, grow.  So I can share them and spread them around to my friends and neighbors.

I've planted and will post images as they grow:  squash, zucchini, eggplant, brussels sprouts, kale, basil, rosemary, dill, and chocolate mint.  Very very exciting.  Every spring and summer watching them grow convinces me of the divine presence everywhere---that there's nothing to complain about and that every moment is rich and miraculous.

Amen.

 Amen.

Amen.