Online Summer Camp - EARTH - Day 5

 Pics and poem  - with Rev. Lidvald Haugen-Strand

 

Layers of the soil

 

Soil is deep

But we only see the surface

 

Covered in green

Plants nestled together rooted

 

As we look deeper we see roots

Fingers digging ever deeper and wide

So we are not uprooted

 

Did you know that plants can talk?

That they work together to grow and protect

That uprooting breaks the bonds and isolate?

 

Year after years

Leaves fall

A carpet that decays.

Year after year the carpet grows deep.

 

And in our lives the soil grows deep

Generations grow within us.

 

As we root into our soil we discover treasures

Jewels and diamonds

Broken shards of Glass

Patterns of unrooting and restoring.

Civilizations and wisdom

Nourished by generations of ancestors

 

And throughout the generations

The Gardener rejoices

 

Lid Haugen-Strand

May 30, 2022