One need not necessarily advert, intellectually, to principles in order to be fed by truthful actions and deeds. In fact in this work is a profusion of motives and returns. A constant fidelity in little things will lead to great fidelity in important things. The habits we form, which move, guide, protect us, are best supported on simple, familiar acts. Contemporary existence, its strong sap withdrawn by the stimulation of artificial life in cinema, magazines and books, is quite without real colour and imagination.
Sick organisms return to health in progressive stages.
Recourse to home gardening, strengthened by values peculiar to this kind is one way to awaken atrophied faculties and forces, introducing into souls suppleness, change and variety, teaching the laws of growth. We plant the seed. God gives the increase. They thereby emphasize a Christian truth difficult for the Christian to understand and live. Co-operation is necessary between man and God, not to help out God, but because that is the law of His own creation.