Gardening doesn't lend itself to the evangelical. However, gardening is incredibly related to my view of Christianity. It's certainly used over and over as fonder for parables in both old and new testaments.
It's patient, for sure. It is slow and careful.
It's based upon a simple and complex relationship. I guess all relationships are complex. In gardening it's soil, seed, sunlight, rain, pollenation, etc.
You can't force it, but it happens naturally as if it were forced.
It's productive. Hopefully fruit is produced.
It can be done alone or with others. I think of the solitary guru on the mountain as well as the communes or abbeys.
But gardening is interesting in that it's not something folks try to get their friends to do. Thought provoking...
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