Plants have stories to tell, but, since they can’t speak, they tell them without words. Seeds sprout and grow into plants. Plants produce their fruit, and, if we’re lucky enough, we get to taste the fruit–a beautiful story told without words, but in a language we can all understand.
What stories do you tell without words? What is the seed that God has planted in your soul? What fruit does it bear? What fruit will it bear? Because our lives tell stories without words.
In her book, Braiding Sweetgrass, the native American author, Robin Kimmerer, describes in great detail the respect and reverence of nature that is part of native American spirituality.
It’s an attitude that I believe is very much in keeping with the message of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si, On Care for our Common Home, which calls on us to treat nature and the world around us as a gift, and not simply a commodity to use and to use up, because you appreciate and take care of gifts.
“Very truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a single grain, but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” (John 12:24)
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Thank you, Father!
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