Aligning with Grace

Easter morning was magnificent, as I crossed the Potomac River, on my way to teach a friend's yoga classes, hours before I would meet my family for Easter Sunday Mass. The sky was a beautiful blue, but a slight carpet of foggy mist hovered over verdant fields, though it was thicker where it hung over the river. Halfway into my trip, something told me to flip on the radio, and I caught the Krista Tippett interview with Vigen Guroian , an Armenian priest and college professor, who writes about the joys of gardening in his book, The Fragrance of God . He says that it reveals the grandeur of God to him, more than anything else, for nowhere is the union of God with the whole cosmos made more evident than in a garden. In fact, Guroian affirms, that for him, gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. And having been a theologian for more than half of my life, that gave me pause for thought! During my drive, I was captivated by the many different variety of trees in bloom - especial...