We have an old well in the garden. Its wall is very worn and covered with lichen and moss. Lichen and miss are strange life forms which seem able to grow on the most unlikely ground. I’m quite used to seeing that.
But a few weeks ago a little plant started to grow in a small indentation in one of the stones. Really this indentation isn’t much bigger than a button and it seems pretty shallow. Honestly I never considered it as a likely place for a flower to grow and I certainly didn’t plant one there.
But over a few days this tiny plant grew and blossomed. Isn’t it beautiful?
Really this is the kind of thing that astonishes me. I don’t know how the seed found its way into this tiny recess….either dropped by a bird, or simply blown in the wind. But having found itself there it sure didn’t need much to germinate, grow and flourish.
It reminds me of why I agree with the view that we live in a friendly universe. What I understand by that is whilst entropy shows us that ultimately everything falls apart, there are powerful creative forces in this universe which provide the conditions for life to emerge….more than that…for life to flourish.
Isn’t that astonishing?
Heroes Not Zombies 
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