I wouldn't want to accuse you of rubbing it in,Pastor, but at this time of year, with a foot of snow on my garden (better than some years at this time), one can't help but wonder.However, I am glad to hear that you've spent your winter in a profitable way, rather than playing golf.
Anyone who wants rock can come to my place. We have an over-abundance. Sometimes it seems as if the rocks are breeding underground, and each spring they emerge to get in the way of my rototiller. But something tells me that's not the kind of rock we're talking about here.
Rocks have been around longer than ConAgra & 12-12-12, looking into this sounds intresting. Here's to becoming a secondhand rockbiter all in the neverending story of gardening. Comparing types of rock to get Mittlighter style minerals might be worthwhile.
The whole natural world is designed to be an interpreter of the things of God. To Adam and Eve in their Eden home, nature was full of the knowledge of God, teeming with divine instruction. To their attentive ears it was vocal with the voice of wisdom. Wisdom spoke to the eye and was received into the heart, for they communed with God in His created works. {CG 45.3} The book of nature, which spread its living lessons before them, afforded an exhaustless source of instruction and delight. On every leaf of the forest and stone of the mountains, in every shining star, in earth and sea and sky, God's name was written. With both the animate and the inanimate creation--with leaf and flower and tree, and with every living creature, from the leviathan of the waters to the mote in the sunbeam--the dwellers in Eden held converse, gathering from each the secrets of its life. God's glory in the heavens, the innumerable worlds in their orderly revolutions, "the balancings of the clouds" (Job 37:16), the mysteries of light and sound, of day and night--all were objects of study by the pupils of earth's first school. {CG 45.4} {Ed 21.3} {BLJ 254.3} As it came from the Creator's hand, not only the Garden of Eden but the whole earth was exceedingly beautiful. No taint of sin, or shadow of death, marred the fair creation. God's glory "covered the heavens, and the earth was full of His praise." "The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy." Habakkuk 3:3; Job 38:7. Thus was the earth a fit emblem of Him who is "abundant in goodness and truth" (Exodus 34:6); a fit study for those who were made in His image. The Garden of Eden was a representation of what God desired the whole earth to become, and it was His purpose that, as the human family increased in numbers, they should establish other homes and schools like the one He had given. Thus in course of time the whole earth might be occupied with homes and schools where the words and the works of God should be studied, and where the students should thus be fitted more and more fully to reflect, throughout endless ages, the light of the knowledge of His glory. {Ed 22.2}
