I am amazed -- nay, astonished -- that despite disease and pests; despite too much rain followed by too little, and too cool temperatures followed by too hot; and despite my perpetual mistakes and neglect, I can go out to my tiny garden every other day and come back with a bucket of food.
"Miracle" is the word that comes to mind whenever I think of this. But what is a miracle, really?
I looked it up in the dictionary:
1. an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs
2. an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment
3. a divinely natural phenomenon experienced humanly as the fulfillment of spiritual law
Yep, I've got it right. By any of these definitions, a vegetable garden qualifies as a miracle, indeed!
Carolyn Haley
Author: Open Your Heart with Gardens
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