Spring has sprung the grass is riz

This week end has been one of those week ends where you take pause look around and congratulate yourself for doing a lot of work when it felt like nothing at all. These times for me are few and far between and it is a breath of fresh air to be able to claim that. Perhaps it was the warm kiss of spring on the air that allowed me to work so fervently. As most of you probably guessed I love my little yard and I was anxious to clean it up and make it my own little room. Nothing has pleased me greater in the last little while than to sit in my little yard, drink a cup of hot tea and sit down on my laptop. Hopefully some decent writing will come about this summer.

It always amazes me how quickly the earth renews it's self. I literal watched a plant grow all afternoon. It had just poked it's little head out of the dirt and I watched in amazement how much it had grown in the day.

This week has been full of ups and downs. It was a prime example of the broken world that we live in. A man who worked with the vulnerable sector had gone to court for sexually assaulting them. The court allowed him to walk free. The judge spoke and said that he believed each and every one of the victims (including myself), and disbelieved the accused. The confines of the law is the accused must be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The defense lawyer did his job and created just that. Reasonable doubt. Although the judge thought that the man was guilty of the horrendous crimes he had to let him go due to the constraint of the law. I went through many different emotions, relief that the ordeal was over, anger at the broken system (I felt no animosity to the judge), disappointment, fear, betrayal and many more. The universe has a way of balancing everything out. What appears as chaos and destruction life was created. From the shadow of the evil of this man I was shown wonderful, true, honest and good people exist. The opposite of this man and his wife. In the end it is not the justice of man that will prevail. You reap what you sow. It did remind me of this passage:

Matthew 7:15-20English Standard Version (ESV)

A Tree and Its Fruit

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.


The fruit is not the good work that he claims to be doing, but the people with whom he is working.