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On gardening
« on: October 14, 2010, 02:42:59 PM »
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  • I wrote a short essay. Please let me know if this essay is orthodox or not and what you think of it:

    So what have we learned about what it means to be a spouse of Christ?

    As the man digs deep into the body of his wife and deposits his seed so that a child may be brought forth,
    As the farmer plows the earth and plants his seeds into the rich black soil so that corn may be brought forth,
    So the good God deposits his seeds into the souls of those who love him so that good fruits may come forth from these, his children.

    To some he entrusts a single seed, to others a garden, and to others whole fields and valleys are given to their care. It is our greatest task to care for these seeds from their beginnings until the fruit comes and the harvest with feasting and merriment.

    All that is precious in us is what the good God entrusted to our care. As long as we nourish and protect our seeds and the plants that come forth from them, the good God will protect us and help us. But if we ever abandon what the good God has entrusted to us, so too will He abandon us, until we go back to Him and ask pardon from Our Lord who is merciful.

    There are many who labor for themselves, or for others, and not for the good God. Their fields are of brambles and thorns and the vilest of weeds, and their fruits are poison, and there domain is the den of vipers and jackals, but they know not because they are blind and think their poisonous fruits are the sweetest of strawberries and cherries.

    We must care for our gardens and never sell what was entrusted to us at any price, though if we heed the Lord, our gardens will grow exceedingly rich and beautiful and many will come and offer much for our gardens, but nothing is more precious than what God has entrusted to us, because He knows best what is our happiness and He gives to all according to our stature. The king is meant to be a king and not a beggar, and the beggar is meant to be a beggar and not a king, and if their places were switched, it would reduce their happiness because people are happiest when they obey the good God and take the place which He has given them.

    Let us always think of our own and tend what the good God has entrusted to us, and not of strange fields and gardens we know not, because what the good God has given us is home and that is where happiness lies, in doing the will of God.
    R.I.P.
    Please pray for the repose of my soul.