What Can You Grow in the Dark?

Another audio-book has encouraged me this year. Mushrooms on the Moor by Frank W. Boreham is summarized on LibriVox as "A series of essays exhorting us with wit and humor to retain our childlike sense of wonder and delight in the world that God has made."

For example, enjoy this excerpt:

"Mr. G. K. Chesterton does not like mushrooms. That is the most arresting fact that I have gleaned from reading, carefully and with delight, his Victorian Age in Literature...  But Mr. Chesterton does not like mushrooms! I cannot get over that!...

"Anybody can grow fine flowers in the daytime. But what can you grow in the dark? That is the challenge of the mushrooms—what can you grow in the dark? 'The nights are the test!' as Charlotte Brontë used to say. When things were as black as black could be, poor Charlotte wrote: 'The days pass in a slow, dark march; the nights are the test; the sudden wakings from restless sleep, the revived knowledge that one sister lies in her grave, and another not at my side, but in a separate and sick-bed. The nights are the test.' They are indeed. Tell me: Can you grow faith, and restfulness, and patience, and a quiet heart in the darkness? If so, you will never speak contemptuously of mushrooms again."

Mushrooms on the Moor by Frank W. Boreham
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