"Consider the Hydrangeas", said Jesus, "They don't worry themselves to exhaustion ....but not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like them". I know, Jesus lived in a pre industrial society and before capital consumerism, globalisation and digitalised finance grew like life threatening algae across the surface of human life.
Still. Around August every year for thirty years, outside the home of a friend, I've come face to face with this massive living bouquet of purple blue.
And I wonder. What would Jesus say now, to the anxious, driven unhappiness of our society insatiably wanting more, laying waste our planet, and oblivious of the precious unrepeatable gift that life is. Nothing radical. Just the same as he said then. "Seek first the Rule of God in your life....you can't serve God AND money." He was right then, and he is still right.
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