I appreciate that you honored your children’s emotional attachment to the seedlings you were caring for. We all start life caring about all life and then many of us are forced into a more callus view. As a child, I held many funerals for dead baby birds, a butterfly, goldfish, my brother’s guinea pig… it helped me with my sadness and grounded me in the reality that God made all of these things. As an adult, I can’t carry the weight of all the loss of life I know of, but I know Who does and there is still a child-like comfort in that.
Christina, this is beautiful! I love that you’re cultivating your children (little people seedlings) to see the life and death of gardening and how it mirrors God. What a gift you’re giving them!
I appreciate that you honored your children’s emotional attachment to the seedlings you were caring for. We all start life caring about all life and then many of us are forced into a more callus view. As a child, I held many funerals for dead baby birds, a butterfly, goldfish, my brother’s guinea pig… it helped me with my sadness and grounded me in the reality that God made all of these things. As an adult, I can’t carry the weight of all the loss of life I know of, but I know Who does and there is still a child-like comfort in that.
Absolutely!
Christina, this is beautiful! I love that you’re cultivating your children (little people seedlings) to see the life and death of gardening and how it mirrors God. What a gift you’re giving them!
Oh thank you!
Very nice liturgy!
Thank you!
So beautiful!
Thank you so much!