09.03.2025 | Ordinary Wednesday

Another beautiful day here in the Carondelet Garden.  The sun is shining brightly with blue skies overhead.  Low humidity and wonderful temperatures on this mid-week Wednesday morning.  A glorious day with highs in the mid to upper 80s.  Winds are out of the West at 5 to 10 MPH.  Beautiful weather but we are desperate for some heavenly moisture.  The smattering of rain yesterday was just that... a smattering.  A lovely soaking rain would be quite welcome about now.

"Rain down on me." The words of the hymn ring loudly today for so many reasons.  First, we need some rain here in Saint Louis.  It has been extremely dry for a long time.  Yet, this old gardener has been feeling a bit dry as well.  Spiritually dry.  There is so much going on in the world and I'm feeling small and a bit helpless.  Yet, it is precisely our smallness that allows us to trust in the power of creation that surrounds us.  It is only then that we can truly come to see the face of God in the face of others.  

When we turn over our power to something outside ourselves, which is the very essence of faith, we have faith in something greater than our smallness.  We face our helplessness as a sign of the Creator of all things at work in us and all around us.  This is often easier said than done for this old man.  Yet, we persevere.  Every day a new beginning.  A new opportunity to be a part of creation.  

A new day.  I think I'll plant something.  Be a part of creation.  That's all the news from here in the Carondelet Garden.