Nature Tables...
Assignment for PopPop's birthday:
Take a walk...
And let your poet run free in verse...
Be on the lookout for seeds:
Pods and spurs, Grasses and burrs,
"Hey, I've got seeds on my pants! All I had to do was wade through the grass" (Worldviews often "caught" unintentionally ... simply from wading amongst worldly seed?)
"Momma, *this* is a seed!" as her breath propels thousands of little Tinkerbell fluffs to unknown destinations... (Word-seed of our tongue,cast abroad with nothing more than a breath breathed out?)
Coming home, our "Nature Table" awaits the inspection of our "finds"... grass seed, seedpods, dandelion puffs, burrs ("Watch out, Mom! Sandspurs! Seeds too?")
Pine cones broken apart and peered into, trying to identify what part exactly is the seed? Acorns with lobelia... milkweed with lovegrass... coreopsis and pink scale gayfeather (liatris elegans!)... pinecones with stiff aster. We look... we learn... we teach one another.
Deep truths, hidden in and amongst the seed, come forth...Whether pod, puff, or pinecone, the seed-bearer must give itself up in order for New Life to come forth...
Abba ... may Truths captured on bright autumn days, enlighten our understanding and lead us in the Way Everlasting!
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