(See posts from 2/15-2/18/2016) There was a time years ago when I used to be a really avid gardener. Which is not to say that I was a really good gardener; just an avid one. In truth, for all the work I used to put into my garden it never turned out to be the great work of landscape art I always envisioned at the beginning of each spring and I swear that none of the flowers I fussed and fawned over flourished half so well as the weeds I was constantly yanking. And it was one day as I knelt in the mulch staring at the tough, gargantuan root of a wonderfully healthy-looking dandelion which I swore I'd already pulled up three times previously that summer, that I had an ephiphany: the beautiful things in life are fragile while the noxious things thrive and thrive. I've come to believe this is true, and not only in my garden. ...the vet explained to me that rabbits are among the most vulnerable of all the animals, possessing no natural defenses. So meek are rabbits that at the sight of a predator they often drop dead before the attack even begins.
Yes, I know the feeling, thought I. I know about being so non-confrontational that one would rather lay down and die than put up a fight, less out of fear of fighting than simply not knowing how. I know kind, gentle, beautiful good-hearted people who are no more a match for the tough and aggressive go-grabbers of this world than a little rabbit nibbling peacefully under his shade tree would be for a big-jawed German shepherd on the loose. Jesus said blessed are the meek, but if they're in line to inherit the earth I don't see that happening anytime soon. The world's just not a safe place these days for the gentle, meek, or vulnerable. There are too many vicious dogs running loose and sharp-fanged snakes slithering through the grass.
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