Digging in the Dirt ~ Thoughts on Fear, Intolerance, and Human Kind

Today I finally got to plant. It was so therapeutic in the mental and emotional sense. Physically though, I'm a wreck. Stooping, scraping, digging with my hands, bending. . .it's not good for me. However, to see those little fragrant sprigs of green is so refreshing. To transplant a living thing into something else and give it new life is amazing. Lavender, Tarragon, Oregano, Italian Parsley, Rosemary, Creeping Thyme, and Sweet Basil. I can't wait until I can take a piece of Lavender, crush it in my hands, rub it on my wrists, and put it in my pocket to smell its sweet offerings. Plants, especially herbs, are little miracles.

baby lavender

So I came in, still on my herb high, and sat down to eat a bite, and load my photos from today. I also scanned through my facebook feed, and saw something so vile and hurtful that my heart started racing and my brain spun. I was literally dizzy. Hateful words that degraded a PERSON (not a thing, a PERSON) so much that I actually wanted to weep not only for the person it was directed to, but all of human kind. To make things even better, this bile was spewed by a person who considers themselves a person of God. How can someone who considers themselves a Godly person totally tear apart another one of God's creations (no matter how they want to live their life).  Something so hurtful, said out of pure fear. Negativity and hate and fear will not accomplish JACK SHIT. I can't imagine walking around with that much fear and negativity on my shoulders. It must weigh a ton.

As the great and mighty Chris Robinson wrote "Your mind can't be free when your soul is in jail."


As the Dalai Lama said "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."


As Mohandas Gandhi said "Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."


As Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

And, most important, as Jesus said "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you." (John 15:12)

To the bile-spewer, I hope you read this.