Monday, July 9, 2007

Growing Better


Do plants grow better in pots? Would they grow better, spread further with healthier fruits and richer fruits, colours and splendour, if they were not confined to such human vessels? Is there a time - perhaps in starting out, before setting them out into the 'real world' that they need the protection, the direction, the proper containment and focus of energy? Would the risk in wildness be worth the danger of being lost in all the other competing organisms?
Perhaps the answer involves a 'both / and' perspective. Maybe it all depends - on the kind of plant starting, in its purpose, place and with whom you want it to serve or bless or involve.
Maybe some ministries, some churches, need (would be better) healthy focus and containment - both to attract some to them and to release fruit and fragrance to others who long for the plant's life. Maybe those who are 'liminal' in empty pots or those with straggling, struggling plants could experiment in going without pots for awhile. Perhaps the sometimes naive-about-structures emergents could risk planting their new, fledgling organism into a pot - large or small, new or old, knowing that if it be of God the life will continue, the plant will blossom and flourish, the fruit and flower and fragance will bless people - anyway.
Maybe it's like weight-loss program - ie. they all work; the secret is to sticking with the one chosen . . .