Thinking About Grass.

       These days out in my grasslands promotes contemplating the benefits of grass. A quick Google search found this: 

"Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and use the sun’s energy to ‘fix” this carbon to make sugars and other carbohydrates which the plant can store and use later or be used by other organisms. During this process plants give off oxygen. Photosynthesis is the biochemical process by which plants remove carbon from the atmosphere. In prairie grasslands a large amount of fixed carbon is stored in plant roots. When the plant dies some of the root remains in the soil for hundreds of years as organic carbon humus. Prairie soil acts as a “carbon sink”."

      There are other benefits of grassland. Grasses and the accompanying flora are home to a large variety of living creatures. Insects, including butterflies, and bees, birds and mammals call grasslands home.

    Grasses also fix the soil in place eliminating erosion from wind and water. Grasses absorb rain reducing water run off into streams and rivers. There is also aesthetic appeal  of grass beautifully waving in the wind.

    Then there is this:  1 Peter 1:24-25

New Revised Standard Version

24 For

“All flesh is like grass
    and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
    and the flower falls,
25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.”

Takk for alt,

Al