Sew This Thyme

OK, this isn't Thyme, it's a truck load of "scratch and dent" flowers.

Sew this truckload of flowers and sweet potato vine and you can care for someone else, their property, and their life.

It's not a new idea, it's just that I got photos today. My Dad; Carroll Hackbart, and his friend Al Schmaderer got a call on Tuesday that Kaw Valley Greenhouses had stock to donate to the local Senior Center. On Wednesday night they picked up the "material", two truckloads of sunburnt vines and overblown petunias.

Thursday morning they guys met at the Center and started planting:
Bob Smail, Don Combs, Al and Dad.

Dad had built planters and outfitted them with watering systems. (Thanks to Thrivent and Caring for Communities grants, and the Manhattan Men's Garden Club)

This sunny May day they prepped the beds and sewed the plants that no one wanted. Which, after a few weeks, everyone will envy. Caring for Creation is overwhelming if you take the whole earth into account. Caring for your community can be broken down into small and large projects that can be done.

Taking the time to weed your own garden, or even better, the garden of someone who can't get down on thier knees anymore, is caring for creation.


Delivering meals to someone who can't get out, friend, family or stranger, is caring for community.

Stewardship is about life lived for others.

GO Sew this thyme!

Sew this is the idea:

Stewardship is all about responsible care of someone else's possesion.
As Christians we confess that all is the LORD's. So everything we have is someone else's stuff. But Stewardship sometimes gets so focused on our care of our cash, that we overlook the stewardship that is a way of life.

Sew This is about Stewardship in the many and myriad ways that I've learned from my parents, and other people along the way.

Sew This will begin with sewing: seeds, plants and pants. And I'll move out from there.