Reflection:
Caring gently for God’s Creation is both that which is visible and invisible to our eyes and perception. At Walter Scott, after three years of labor our original native prairie project along our road frontage is flourishing. For a half mile strip under our powerlines, the native wildflowers are supporting bees, pollinating insects, and many small critters as a part of the ecosystem. In a testament of vibrant colors, Creation witnesses to its own health. In a quieter witness, our goats have cleared out invasive underbrush in the forest to allow the ecosystem to begin to reemerge. While pseudo-monochrome above, the regeneration of the forest ecosystem is mostly happening underneath the soil. The trees roots grow stronger as they are able to soak up more of the water, native seedbeds begin to reemerge, and the small mushrooms we see coming back are only the tip of the underground fungi whole. Creation is able to heal itself when we are willing to acknowledge our role as part of Creation instead of as its master. When we come to understand our actions, intentional and unintentional, individual and communal, are living into a vocation of caring for that which God has entrusted us with, we too are Cared for Gently.
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