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On a cool June morning, several “characters” from St. Paul’s gathered to plant our annual vegetable garden. From left to right the dirt team was Sue Jones (Lew was here earlier but had to go to work), Bob Hankey, Don and Mitzi Manning, Bruce Dailey (AKA Bucket-head), Bill and Lynn Freeman, Jennifer Westermann and Dolly Chergosky. The tomatoes were staked (can we have steak and tomatoes?) and beans planted along the fence, potatoes rotated to the front of the garden, and many, many bugs were swatted away from hot faces. Before lunch the whole thing was blessed and prayed for by all of us, prayers for another productive year, for timely rain (especially say around 4:00 A.M. each morning…) and for all the labor and love that make this garden a reality in its third year now. We will be calling on all of you to help maintain and water the garden, to help with harvest when that time comes, for the clean up when fall is underway. It is truly a garden of love and delight, a garden that blooms with abundance and grace each year. I seldom use this exclamation but I do so now with gratefulness and a big smile, PRAISE THE LORD!! A Blessing over Food
Thank You, God for the food on my table and for the
cook who, like you, knows the secrets of creation. Thank you for plants,
animals, and water, for my own life, which you nourish and sustain each day.
Please, God, answer the prayers of all those who turn to you in need. May all
who are hungry be blessed with food. May I never be indifferent to the cries of
those in need of my assistance. May I never take my good fortune for granted.
Thank you, God, Creator of all. Amen.
Naomi Levi (Talking to God, 2002)
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