"Consider the Lilies of the Field ....."
"How they grow; they toil not , neither do they spin"
".... and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these!"
[The journey across the Margaret River vineyards in Western Australia revealed these beauties. And this quotation from St Matthew reporting Jesus' Sermon on The Mount springs at once to mind. It is prefaced by the poignant and contemporarily germane question: "And why take ye thought for raiment?"]
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"Take no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
Matthew, 6, vv 28/29 & 34
Published Date: September 30th 2005
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