Saturday, August 4, 2012

Fertile soil, sifting the dirt.

So I have this really cool system in my backyard for changing my organic waste into dark, rich, soil..... I have little miniature piles of dirt all over my backyard and when I come home from the Feria (Open air street market) and cook some yummy foods, I end up with like a pile of waste like stems, yicky apple parts, etc. so I just toss it on the back in a pile and cover it up, then after a month of rain, and, sun, and air I sift the piles with a rake and move them to another part of the yard, voila! at the middle or bottom of the pile is the darkest richest most perfect soil that you have ever seen! Oh how it makes me smile.....I dont want to put grass in the yard, and I have these great intentions of growing some amazing things very soon. If you really know Sarai, you know that I am pretty serious about the environment, and since I came to Chile I may even fall into borderline, diehard. Unfortunately I have to hear a certain political groups sometimes deny global warming, even making decisions that affect God's incredibly breathtaking, life sustaining, creation. Every time that I open the bible I see Jesus teaching a lesson that somehow involves his creation and since the climate In Israel was very similar to the climate in Chile.....I get that :) I love how Jesus's first miracle was turning water into wine for a wedding feast. I love that when he wants us to turn from our laziness, he asks us to consider the Ant. I love that the "locusts" that John ate with honey, was actually carob pods. Everytime I quietly observe life around me or even watch it zip past me at incredible speeds, I see a lesson from my Savior, but I see that sometimes views with how we were raised interfere with things God wants to teach us by observing his creation. I realized today raking all of my little compost heaps, that I must let the trash in my life be transformed by grace, and tribulation, and rain, into a fertile soil that gets spread around to help other people grow. And I am begging you, the things around us that God has created are very precious, and if you love him you love his creation as well, PLEASE take care of it and consider that when he made it, he said that it was good, and we do not treat good things poorly.
Scriptures on God's beautiful and educational creation can be found here; explore your own bible as well!
http://www.webofcreation.org/Manuals/scheidt/scripture.html

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