This past Sunday was Good Seed Sunday. Those of us who made it gathered at A Rocha and made our way down to the lower fields with farmer Carly, who led us in transplanting tomato plants out of pots and into the soil. We all worked together: some of us laid out the measuring tape to ensure our spacing allowed each plant room to grow; some of us laid out the tomato plants themselves, while others came along and carefully tucked each plant into its new, temporary home in the ground; and a few of us took on the sweaty task of digging more holes for more tomato plants in the next-door greenhouse tunnel! Some of A Rocha’s fields sit on the site of an old riverbed, so it took some perseverance and grit to dig holes amidst the rocky ground. Intense, embodied work like this can be a good thing, though, undertaken within just such conditions, alongside friends. Something important about our creatureliness emerges as we engage with our whole selves, making contact with the land.
May each of us sense further invitations to embrace our creatureliness this week, in kinship with all Creation!
-Madison