Yard Work

About this time of year I am so anxious to get outside and play in the garden. I already have a drawer full of seeds waiting to be planted. The tool shed is cleaned and ready to go with all of my hoes and shovels lined up in a straight row looking like little soldiers waiting for their marching orders. The robins and bluebirds are back----a sure sign that spring is here.

But I live in Colorado----spring likes to tease us for 2 months or more before it decides to really settle down and stay put. Just two nights ago we had a covering of light snow on the ground and the robins were all looking for a warm place to spend the evening! The next day it was in the 60's and a bright sun was melting all the evidence from the night before.

But I am not deterred.....being in the garden is one of the best places for me to be. The warm soil, the smell of the young plants, the bees and butterflies keeping me company. I never ever thought of yard or garden work as a chore----just a wonderful way to spend some time outside.

Well yesterday, in our Pastor's sermon , he said something that made me rethink my favorite hobby. He has been preaching from Genesis and last week he covered the fall of man from the Garden of Eden. Sad story----really sad. But this week he talked about the curses that resulted from that fall......more sad stories.

He talked about the pain in childbirth (been there) and how the snake would crawl in the dust (seen that), but then he touched on how the earth would be cursed and we would have to really work hard to get anything to grow after the fall and that man would have to eat with sweat on his brow all the days of his life.

He then went on to talk about yard work---and how we are always in a constant struggle to keep things looking right---mowing, fertilizing, weeding, spraying, tilling replanting. A struggle that never ends----we always have to keep up with it---ALWAYS---if we want anything to grow.
And then he said----"you work the ground all your life trying to keep it under control---and in the end---the ground will win and swallow you up and you will be buried 6 feet deep in it!" Hmmmmmm...........

Can I be buried in the herb garden right under the mint?