The Antidote to Despair: Reflections on the New Year

Up to here, the Lord has helped us. (1 Samuel 7:12)

The dawn of another year lends the opportunity for reflection and for recalibrating priorities and aspirations.

Being a flower farmer over the past several years, working intimately with the rhythms of the earth and the delicacy of the growing plants, I have come to see a new understanding of the movements of God over a hungering soul. In conjunction with my work in the garden, I have also been reading the works of the saints. These two exercises, in conjunction…