So what do my house plants teach me? I am not the most green fingered of people when it comes to house plants, but I do seem to have some success with orchids and African violets. The orchids need to be stood on the draining board in the kitchen once a week to have about half a jug of water poured onto their roots and allowed to immediately run away and down the sink. They need feeding about every three weeks. I find they are happy in a moderate temperature. Recently I have been rewarded with some beautiful blooms, still going strong after six weeks. Soon, of course the flowers will drop and the plant will need to rest. The African violet needs a north facing window for preference and needs very, very small amounts of water daily in the dish it stands on. So what do I make of all this in relation to my thoughts on the way young Christians are expected to be. Well you can give them too much food and too much water(lots of meetings) and wonder why they are not thriving. After someone has blossomed why is it we do not realize they need a time of rest. Come to that why do we all expect tremendous progress from ourselves. A time of rest is essential for later progress. Don't beat yourself up when nothing seems to be happening. The Eternal gardener knows what He is doing and will bring you out of the gloom, the necessary gloom to the time when you will bloom gloriously for Him.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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