Every Garden Needs Diversity

April 15, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Easter and Passover. The first night of Passover is April 19^th, and Easter is celebrated on April 21^st.

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A poem for both Easter and Passover about the need for diversity:

Every garden needs diversity,

As grace and function both require it.

So ought gardeners desire it

To make a rich and robust harmony.

Every faith needs faiths that it might be

Resistant to the skeptics who surround it,

Pleased to have believers all around it –

Although segmented, a community.

So is life impoverished by a sameness

Self-imposed to ward off painful change,

Often through a fear that faith be lost.

Very little that one does is blameless.

Each embrace is not without its cost,

Redeemed by love, to which no soul is strange.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Easter and Passover

4/15: Every Garden Needs Diversity