Rosemary

Rosemary, while originating in the middle east, is grown the world over. It is an attractive plant releasing a pleasant scent to all who touch it, as well as being used extensively in Spanish, French and Italian cooking. The ancient Greeks reckoned it was good for the brain, and modern websites describe its healing powers. Furthermore, it grows an attractive, if overlooked, flower.

Does not rosemary bespeak the Creator’s munificence and generosity? Useful, fragrant, beautiful and tasty. In Genesis 3, God curses the ground with thistles and thorns but He kindly still allowed Adam the rights to herbage:

Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field.

The creation became corrupted by man and subject to judgement by God, yet great hints of its orginal bounty and beauty continue to impress us.

Your dead shall live; together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. Isaiah 26:19