Re: Is There Spirituality Involved in your Relationship With Plants?

Richard F. Dufresne wrote:
> 
> At 12:24 PM 7/6/1999 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hi folks...
> >
> >I need some help.  I have been tapped to give a lecture titled "Our
> >Spiritual
> >Connection to Plants" and I've suddenly developed writer's block.
> >
> >Any and all are invited to take a second and tell me what those words
> >mean to you.  Can you site any resources for me?  Anecdotal evidence?
> >
> >Please respond soon - I just am at a loss and I'm beginning to get VERY
> >unspiritual about the whole ordeal.
> >
> >
> >david king
> 
 David:

Just a couple of thoughts.

I and all my gardening friends agree  a deep spiritual peace comes from
working in the garden. A stint with the plants can calm the troubled,
help the confused to sort out problems and generally engender a deep joy
and peace. I know of no better way to forget one's troubles for a while
no matter how deep they may be.

It is very common to envisage family relationships in the form of a tree
and many displaced people find peace by rediscovering their roots.

Jesus is fortold as a new branch springing from the root of Jesse and
there is a Jesse Window in the ancient church at Dorchester in England
(not D in Dorset, but a much smaller place near to Oxford). This is
quite a remarkable construction, as the shoot supporting varous
ancestors of Christ is depicted not in stained glass, but as a sculpture
right up the middle of the window.

Moira
-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, 
New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
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