December 18, 2022 a thought for today, They sowed the seed of an 'if' but it didn't germinate. Greek Proverb
Well it’s been a mostly typical and good Sunday. The number of people at church was a little low but it looked like we may have had two or three new people. Hope they keep coming back.
I had to make a stop on the way home for some Christmas wrapping supplies. And, of course, a fast food brunch for Bob and me. This time it was a visit to Wendy’s.
When I got home, I worked on the poinsettia dedication sheet to go with the Christmas bulletin. I have most of what will be needed at printing time next week done. I said most.....there will be last minute addition....there always are.
The rest of the day will be the usual relax and reflect.
The word today is unity. You see, don't you, how humanity can become one grand brotherhood if it only would, Alwyn M. Thurber. By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity, Saint Augustine. Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us, Aristotle. Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all, Alexander the Great. He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, Gautama Buddha. The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. Thomas Aquinas. Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith, Ignatius of Antioch. Even the weak become strong when they are united, Friedrich Schiller. Love is the cause of unity in all things, Aristotle. We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men, Herman Melville.
For the season I thought this article that I saw today would be an interesting bit to share about Mistletoe. There is a place in the town of Chesapeake Ohio, “hard on the banks of the Ohio River and about as far south as one can get in Ohio, American mistletoe grows wild in the boughs of silver maples, elms and other trees”. I didn’t think about different versions of the plant but learned from this article that there is the European mistletoe and the American mistletoe and nearly 600 species worldwide, with only one species in Ohio. In the little town of Chesapeake it is “easy to see” the mistletoe in the tree tops as forms of “roundish clusters that resemble poorly constructed bird or squirrel nests”. Some of the trees may have up to twenty “clumps” about the size of a basketball. Mistletoe plants in Ohio can be found from Cincinnati to Marietta. Here’s something else I learned: “Unlike some parasitic plants, mistletoe photosynthesizes and is quite green, even at Christmas. It derives nutrients from its host trees by way of specialized roots”. A question posed in the article is.... “How do mistletoe plants attain lofty perches in trees?” The answer, of course, is birds. The plants come into flower in late fall and winter then the “fruit”, the berry, starts out pearly white which attracts the birds. Once they enjoy the gathering of the “fruit” they deposit their bounty which land in the tree tops. The plants can live for several years. One point in their demise is the “host tree” that they are living on may be a “threat” due to disease. For photographers eager to shoot photo of the plant may have some difficulty since they are not “low growing plants”.
It’s going to be take out for dinner tonight.
Joy
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