Celebrating Good Seed Sunday does not have to require anything grandiose. For some families and faith communities, it might mean doing something simple like collecting the trash on or adjacent to your property. This is what my friends in the South did around the natural portion of their property. My family and I visited them a few weeks ago. I told them about all the trash I found.* I also encouraged them to celebrate Good Seed Sunday and to promote it to leadership at their faith community, a Presbyterian congregation. They felt sheepish about inviting others to clean-up ‘their’ land, so they celebrated it a couple of weeks ago on their own. Below are two shots they sent me to show-and-tell about their efforts. I am very proud of them!

As you can see, ‘caring for Creation’ can be simple. This includes the celebration of Good Seed Sunday, which does not have to fall on a Sunday or around Earth Day. And it can be a fun-filled social event. For your family, your faith community or, as I usually collect trash, alone in the woods and communing with God (and my dog!).

*If you’re wondering why I, and not my friends, found the trash (after all it’s they’re land), although regretfully, like many of their neighbours, they are *understandably* fearful of walking in what is perceived to be a woods filled with ‘wall-to-wall-carpet-like poison ivy. Mind you, it’s so big, it vines up and around the trees! But it’s mostly English ivy (a bigger ecological concern for another time) with some poison ivy growth. Knowing the difference, and knowing how to identify your poisonous plants, which include very few species in Ontario–and most of Canada–is of course significant!