We Love the Soil ~ Eberhard Arnold

"We love the body because it is a consecrated dwelling place of the Spirit. We love the soil because God’s Spirit spoke and created the earth, and because he called it out of its uncultivated natural state so that it might be cultivated by the communal work of man. We love physical work – the work of muscle and hand – and we love the craftsman’s art, in which the spirit guides the hand. In the way spirit and hand work through each other we see the mystery of community. We love the activity of mind and spirit, too: the richness of all the creative arts and the exploration of the intellectual and spiritual interrelationships in history and in humanity’s destiny of peace. Whatever our work, we must recognize and do the will of God in it. God – the creative Spirit – has formed nature, and he has entrusted the earth to us, his sons and daughters, as an inheritance but also as a task: our garden must become his garden, and our work must further his kingdom."

Eberhard Arnold http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard_Arnold

Artwork from Erich Pehap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Pehap