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Thread #111618   Message #2353331
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
30-May-08 - 05:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Plant Rights
Subject: RE: BS: Plant Rights
Brother Bernard SSF of Hilfield Friary once wrote of a meeting between Br Bonaventure of Portiuncula and Leonardo Boff, in the Brother's garden.

Boff comments on the beauty, variety and order of the garden but then notices an unruly, bushy green plant. "Brother Bonaventure, what is that?" he asks. Bonaventure replies "They are our sisters, the weeds, I let them grow there because they too are daughters of God, and they sing the beauty of God."

Weeds are just different flowers in the wrong place.

LTS