I found this 'thing' hanging on the wall of the shed where we keep the tractor at our farm. I had no idea what it was but I was sure that some kind of ground cover should planted in the bottom so it can spread out and hang through the little holes and that a flowering plant is just screaming to sit in the top section. So I asked my dad what it would have been used for in it's previous life. I'm not a fisherwoman so I would never have known that it most likely hung off the side of someone's boat...in the water...and that once caught, fish would be stored in there till the end of a day of fishing. In the divider part in the middle there is a spring door through which you stuff the fish so they can swim out. It's a trap.
Since it seemed like no one wanted or needed it anymore, I decided to make it mine. Rather than it hanging around doing nothing and having ceased to be needed, it will now have a new life as entertainment for me. Now I just wait for someone to come to my house and see it with plants stuck in there so they can ask, "What is that thing?" I love to think that even though it was made to be a trap, the tendrils of a plants will free themselves and be all they can be.
I hear many people talk of Sin as a trap...one that they don't understand how to get out of. I say that Sin will never not be a part of our lives but that we can thrive and grow in spite of it! What a lovely rusty reminder :)
2 comments:
Won't the dirt free itself also? :)
No...I have some moss that I'll line the basket with before the dirt goes in. Moss is wonderous :)
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