Simmering Summer

Suddenly it really is summer. Not false alarm early summer any more. But regular early summer. Days so hot I am now spending afternoons inside. Plants are growing more quickly. My first ripe strawberry yesterday! I bought bedding plants. A little late for seeds. Last night I put in kale. Tonight I will put in chard and maybe celery.

Unlike other summers, the mosquitos are fierce in the evenings. Too much long grass in the yard this year perhaps. I may try preparing the earth earlier in the day so I can transplant more quickly. 

Trinity Sunday was amazing. I got to sing one of my favourite old hymns “Holy, Holy, Holy“. I spoke to the celebrant briefly about St. Elizabeth of the Trinity. I chatted to others at fellowship time about my love for trees. 

Sewing project is to embroider some sort of Trinity symbol on a t-shirt. I have an embroidery machine. I have the shirt. I have the pattern. I have the backing. All I need is the nerve. I am afraid of the machine. For years I used an older dewing machine for embroidery and I didn’t really know what I was doing. Some disasters occurred. 

Readings from Divine Intimacy are pretty amazing right now following Trinity Sunday. My meditation phrase yesterday was:

“Even…when our heart is cold, and our mind in darkness, the Holy Spirit is praying within us…”

I keep my meditation phrases short so I remember them if I wander off from the book to do garden chores or housework. Also I try to remember it throughout the evening and the next day until I make another meditation. Out of context the phrase itself loses meaning, but I vaguely remember the content of the entire meditation in Divine Intimacy. I think it is wonderful that the Holy Spirit is there for us, in us, like a coach, guiding and encouraging us towards holiness.  

Of course it is up to us to cooperate with the Holy Spirit. We still have to work at being good and at being prayerful. How grand, though,  to have such a loving, powerful helper “within”. How kind God is to us.