Mourning doves know God the way all creatures must, through love. While words fail, love settles peacefully within and among us.

Butterfly milkweed, now gracing prairie restoration plots at Heatherhope, can poison or heal. They are a sign that to read the “Book of Nature” to learn of God’s blessings takes the eyes of faith.

A young man on our tractor shows the rightful joy of creation. People who get dirty and build things are creators, not billionaires who lay off people to cut costs to enrich themselves. God invites us all to join in the joy of creating rather than destroying.