Peace and Goodwill from the North Fork Garden

It isn’t surprising that three of the major world religions describe the ultimate setting for human and divine encounters as the Garden. Gardens are about life and nurturing. They are important not just to people’s physical sustenance, but to spiritual well-being and beauty. As we celebrate another year’s end, our gardens may be languishing, but images of what they represent to us live on in the symbols of our shared faith in the dignity and meaning of human existence. Glass and fabric, stone and wood celebrate the graceful shapes and forms of the garden that grow in our hearts even at the darkest of times. Peace, the Garden says to each one of us. Celebrate and grow it always!