Monday, September 6, 2021

Dear God,

I stood at my kitchen sink slipping the hot skins from beets I picked from the farm just yesterday.  As I held the small, deep wine-colored beet in my hand, I whispered aloud, "How blessed I am to be able to work with fresh produce grown in the earth by dedicated farmers and home canned by me to give to family and friends who love beets."  I smiled thinking how grateful I am for your creation!

Home canning is a labor-intensive project but washing, touching, preparing, slicing, eating and giving away produce provided by your hand and the many who plant the seeds, cultivate, water and provide such wonderful goodness always makes me feel blessed.  Today it was the beets and pears.  A few days ago it was the peaches, carrots and strawberry peach, blueberry and red raspberry jam.  Tomorrow it will be tomatoes and next week will be apples.  Abundance, abundance, abundance.

It is all a tremendous spiritual exercise, O God!  You are to be praised!

Thank you,

Creator God,

for the fruit

and vegetables

of the earth.

Thank you

for all 

you do

to provide

such rich,

tasty, healthy

and amazing food.

Thank you

for today's blessing

and yesterday's

and tomorrows!

Love always, Andrea