Emphasis Preaching Journal

In the parsonage of a minister friend is a plant terrarium which never ceases to fascinate me. There, in the midst of family life, a television set, magazines, furniture, wall hangings, and what-nots, the little world inside the glass jug quietly pursues its own agenda. Of course, the processes occurring within the jug are logically explained in terms of chemical reactions, but it remains a novelty that, undisturbed by the goings-on around it, the terrarium creates its own atmosphere.