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Comfort Ye My People: A Solace for Any Man's Heart
BY: Margie Haack |
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I recently read about a man who was sent to Indonesia with his family to live and work for a global corporation. He had a lively interest in natural history, so in addition to his regular employment, he began describing and drawing the island’s plants. Having learned much about the flora from local people, he included extensive cultural lore and medicinal uses. He pressured himself to complete the drawings because he was losing his eyesight to glaucoma. The effort became a large body of work, so large that he hoped to get it published. Then came a series of tragic events. His wife and daughter were killed in a tsunami. Shortly after this, his house burned down and all his drawings were lost in the fire. He eventually had them redrawn with the help of an assistant. He sent half the manuscript back to Europe, but the ship carrying it sank. Finally, after thirty-seven years of research, writing and re-writing, the completed manuscript reached his company’s headquarters. However, the company decided to suppress publication declaring that the manuscript contained trade secrets having to do with medicines and spices....
Go here to read Margie's entire essay:
http://margie.ransomfellowship.org/?cat=3
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Margie Haack
Margie Haack with her husband, Denis, are co-directors of Ransom Fellowship, a ministry helping Christians engage postmodern culture in ways that are both authentic to the Christian faith and winsome in its expression. Margie is the author of The Exact Place, blogs at toadsdrinkcoffee.blogspot.com, and is editor of a quarterly newsletter, Notes From Toad Hall, where she writes about being faithful in the ordinary and the everyday. She is also a columnist for Comment Magazine, a grandmother, a lazy gardener, and a chocolate freak.
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This year spring came late to southern Minnesota, and when it arrived it brought chilly temperatures, cloudy skies, and lots of rain. Whether it is because of these factors or something entirely different I don't know, but 2013 has turned out to be The Year of the Morel. If you have never sampled these delicious mushrooms, you are in for a treat. We've found them on more than one walk in the woods, and so feel we have had a special opportunity to experience one of the wonders of creation.
Morels, goldfinches, a well crafted film, an iris bursting into bloom, a chance for an unhurried conversation in a safe place--such glimmers of hope help us flourish as persons in this broken world. These are the sort of things we are concerned with at Ransom. Thanks for visiting.
Denis & Margie Haack
Anita Gorder
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