Bounty

 If there is a word that is truly descriptive of the Real World, it  would have to be bountiful. Nature does not scrimp. Even in difficult places --deserts or ice caps-- you will still find endless ecosystems flourishing. In order to achieve balance in the long run and stack the deck for life, Nature always makes plans for more than enough.  That goes for roaches, ticks, mosquitoes and us. When there is balanced husbandry of the earth's resources, all have the opportunity to prosper.

"Suppose we did our work / like the snow, quietly,quietly, / leaving nothing out." Wendell Berry

 

These days not many of us are  feeling very bountiful. Our capabilities to artificially control bounty of every description, has caused a lot of complications in the many worlds we have created as well as the real world we live on.

Christmas is a celebration of the never ending source of love, a richness of plenty beyond any we have ever known. When times are hard and we are frightened by what we lack, perhaps it would be helpful to remember the unselfish abundance of this beautiful, beautiful world and let ourselves be taken in by the love which created it.

I know that I have life

only insofar as I have love.

I have no love

                                                      except it comes from Thee.

                                                     Help me,please, to carry

                                                     this candle against the wind.

                                                                     Wendell Berry, Leavings