If Wordsworth had stood up in a Meeting for Worship and ministered about ‘a host of dancing daffodils’, would he have been accused of ‘daffodil ministry’? When we use this term in a negative way, do we mean that the ministry is predictable? Words about the natural world, as with any other subject, can move us profoundly or seem banal. I certainly hope the phrase won’t deter anyone from ever sharing their response to nature when it comes from a deep place.

Those of us who attended the recent Woodbrooke course ‘Body Earth and Spirit’ discovered this. We were challenged by a question we discovered written on the flipchart one morning, ‘Did you find God in the garden?’ Gradually, one by one as we felt moved, we wrote up our responses to the question. The result, after a slight rearranging of the order, was the poem below.

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