10.03.2023 | Ordinary Tuesday

A beautiful, blue-sky kind of morning here in the Carondelet Garden this first Tuesday of October.  The sunshine and heat have returned to South Saint Louis and that means early morning watering of container plants and my slowly growing, rehabbed lawn in the back yard.  The work of a gardener never ends.  Thank goodness for that!

In Autumn we think of things growing older and beginning the end of their life cycle.  We see the leaves beginning to change.  The last butterfly has left, and their beauty is missed.  Yet, as I grow ever older, I realize that my best friend is reality.  Not theology, or ideology, not what "should be" as much as "what is."  I've come to believe that our Creator came to give us a truth that sets us free, not an authority that would do all of our homework for us.  

I've also come to believe that fixed somewhere between a simple, ordinary happiness and mystical ecstasy there is a sense of total, and utter, completeness that lives in a garden.  A feeling that never really leaves me.  A feeling that I get every time I go outside and experience the beauty of creation.

I hope you get the opportunity to experience a bit of beauty on the Tuesday morning.  A bit of grace on your journey.  A little faith, a renewed hope and the gift of love is the answer to the problems we face.  It is a bit simplistic, but there is a deep truth as well.  Be good to yourself and kind to others you may meet along the way.  That's all the news from here in the Carondelet Garden.