Green Grows 12/20/08

More snow fell today. December has been a month of endless snow. And now we have wind and cold to add to the snow. The wind chill, they say, might be –30 tonight and the new snow and wind will make visibility difficult.

Despite all this the sunroom remains, with help from five-pane windows and a small heater, between 50 and 60 degrees. This is salad-growing weather, as can been seen in this picture. Green grows in the cold, snow or heat.

Today, with help of the wiki gnome Tegan the nonviolent worm home page was spiced up. There is now a new feature on the ‘nonviolent’ side of the page, the MU Peace Update. Very Slowly but surely the seeds of resistance to the military training on Christian campuses are starting to take hold. I am starting to hear from local and national persons of pent-up resistance to training “to kill or be killed” on campuses. Yesterday someone sent me a copy of a letter from a graduate of another Catholic University to the president of that University and the Board of Trustees objecting to ROTC on campus.

Messengers can be dismissed or marginalized, but the message will take root, like a plant. There is no stopping a truthful message, even when it comes from a voice crying in the wilderness or in the cold and snow.

Nonviolence, speaking truth to power, and the worm, a small weak old creature, go together. The nonviolent worm continues to eat, cast and procreate in the cold just as the power of nonviolence continues to take root and grow despite rejection and being ignored. Green grows in the cold.

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