Proposed Rooftop Healing Garden
On the way to a prayer service for a homicide victim I heard on the car radio about a Rooftop Healing Garden and Conservatory that is being built at St. Luke’s Hospital. “Work on the Vince Lombardi Charitable Funds Healing Garden and the Agnes and Morland Hamilton Healing Conservatory will start this week.” Many of us can testify to the healing power of gardens, so having one on the roof of major hospital is natural. Gardens are a key to healing.
After the first prayer vigil and on the way to a second one, I got a call from the locksmith that he could meet me at Matthias’ house to make the keys for the ambulance we are trying to send to a rural hospital in Sierra Leone. The donation to the Seisay Foundation of the ambulance was made a few years ago. However, it has taken some time to raise the money to ship to the hospital, and a slight starting problem caused the ambulance to miss the last shipment of goods. We had a person who was going to repair the ambulance last winter and took the one set of keys to do so. However, he lost the keys. Now we have another chance to ship the ambulance and needed a locksmith to make keys for the door and ignition. He made the keys and I, Uncle Bob, gave them to Matthias Seisay, the president of the foundation and my African nephew. For now, there is no ambulance at this hospital and ill persons in the villages must walk, be carried to hospital or get a ride in a sidecar of a motorbike which at times on those roads can be more treacherous than the sickness. This ambulance holds the key to healing in this poor African rural area.
My third healing key came today when I went to visit the DMZ garden. The garden is growing and a real source of hope and healing in an area of the city that experiences too much violence. Dawn told me today at the garden that many a person has come by the garden, especially war veterans, and commented on the correctness of the name, DMZ. This garden is truly a demilitarized healing zone that holds the key to peace in the central city. While I was working there today a man drove by in a truck full of scrap. He came out of the truck with a bag of rotten apples and put them in the compost pile. Marna and Dawn of the DMZ are building more than soil at the DMZ. It is a healing zone. Updated pictures of the DMZ are promised tomorrow eve.
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