un jardin
Right outside the dorms, there is a wooden box on table legs with little leaves starting to peek out of the 5 one by two foot sections that the box is divided into. The carrots that we planted mid last week are still hiding, but the radishes are now barely visible. One has to wonder whether the words of encouragement written all over the box and the occasional singing and talking to the baby plants are really making a difference. According to the Quantum Physics movie we saw last week, it should. It showed the scientific experiment of how drastically water molecules change shape based on what words are written on the outside and Tag mentioned that Mythbusters confirmed that plants grow or whither based on what is spoken to them.
Maybe I should try it. The last week that we’ll be in Mexico is a dry run ministry live off campus type thing so the team with the heaviest produce by the time we leave gets a little bit of extra cash for that week to do something fun. Competition isn’t really my thing, but I’m still glad that each team gets its own box of carrots/ radishes to care for. We even found a few worms to stick in there even though we had spent a good twenty minutes the day before worm noodling- aka sticking a stick in the ground and hitting it to try to lure the worms out of the ground- the day before. That didn’t work too well. I guess the ground is still too dry despite the occasional rain storms but you should try it sometime. I’d be curious as the results.
Other than organic gardening, we have continued to visit our ministry family a few times a week, we’ve gone back to the MTI work site, and we were even able to visit a prison Thurs. morning and go to one of their Spanish church services. Life is good.
How have you been?
Prophesy life over those freakin radishes!