03.12.2024 | Tuesday in Lent

It is a lovely start to the Tuesday morning here in the Carondelet Garden.  Fair skies overhead and temperatures heading toward the low 70s by this afternoon.  Hard to believe it is still early March in South Saint Louis.

The Vinca are in bloom and putting on quite a show in the parterre garden.  It is always exciting to see these little beauties come into flower every Spring.  We gave them a hard cleanup last Fall and they came roaring back better than ever.  

Gardens are my call to "come away and rest awhile."  Rest takes different forms for each person.  For me it is turning of the soil of my soul to see what is buried underneath.  I need to find beauty and quietude in this over-messy, overcrowded, overstimulating world.  I need the quiet of the garden.

The seventeenth century mathematician and theologian Blaise Pascale said, "All a person's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."  Even Albert Einstein said, "The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulate the creative mind."  I find myself searching a bit this morning.

It is quiet now.  A cup of tea and a slight breeze accompany my contemplation this morning.  A bit of prayer and quietude this Lenten Tuesday.  That's all the news from here in the Carondelet Garden.