Conversations with God

Hello God, it’s me, Mara:

You know, Lord, grass is turning green in our corner of the earth again. It’s been said that grass is the least pretentious of this world’s everyday plants and the most important to mankind. The young blades are simplicity itself, not the simplicity of unicellular life in stagnant water, but specialized simplicity unmatched in the fields. It’s been written that all the grasses, be they corn, wheat, barley, or oats are perfection, having eliminated nonessentials, but we know it is Your gift, Lord, unique to them. Stems seldom branch, their flowers have dispensed with petals, scent and honey. They need only the wind to pollinate them.

Grasses not only help to cool and clarify the air we breathe, but constantly restore oxygen to that very same air, that’s Your gift to us, Lord! We also thank You, for our city’s parks and for the wide-open spaces on our prairie. They are turning into green oasis this April month, all so very pleasing to the eye. These oases of green literally are breathing spaces, (chlorophyll’s power of regeneration), these meadows, pastures, wide open grasslands of the countryside.

Grass may be simple, but it is priceless and perfect for its purpose and found almost everywhere that plants can grow. It can grow tall (like bamboo) or generous (as corn), lush and cool (as bluegrass), or even as a weed.

Grass is a green hillside, a lawn, a hayfield, a thousand-acre field of wheat. And now it is greening the earth once again and for this we thank You, Lord. We read dozens of references in Your Holy Word about grass but a special one is found in Isaiah 40:8: “The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.” We thank You, Lord, that for all of us, Your word endures forever.

Love, Mara