Four Roses for Mary

Today two of my ministries, driving and computer word, suffered a breakdown. On the way back home after driving a friend to a health care appointment I stopped at a custard stand for a cone of flavor of the day. When I went to restart my car it would not start. My driving ministry came to a halt when I had to have the car towed to repair shop.

My computer keeps freezing making doing any work on my computer difficult and time consuming. Fortunately I had the money to get my car repaired and am using my wife’s computer for this posting. Hopefully the computer problem will work itself out before I need to call a repair person.

In this age of technology, ministry that is dependent on its use, like my car ministry or computer word ministry, can come to a screaming halt with technical difficulties.

However, my gardening work, or gardening ministry you may call it, is impervious to technical difficulties. Weather might affect it but not technology.

So today with my technology-dependent ministries on hold I checked out my backyard garden. I noticed four roses on my wild rose bush (I spend no time caring for it), which is alongside the circle of flowers with statue of Mary and bird path in the middle.

I thought to myself these four roses are for Mary, Mother of God, and source of wisdom and guidance to many of us. The four roses are for Mary, technology free.

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