Places of mowship

In the beginning, Garden God created the sky and the soil, then photosynthesis. The next day he invented rain, watering cans and hoses, ponds and fountains. On the third day, he started his first vegetable patch and fruit orchard. He also created grass, brambles, ivy, dandelions and bindweed, to make life on Earth more interesting. For the next two days, Garden God experimented with life that can move around and ended up with snails and earthworms. To regulate their population, he created magpies and robins. On the fifth day, he thought that his previous creations weren't fluffy enough, and that's how foxes, rats, mice and voles were introduced to the Earth. On the sixth day, Garden God created mankind in his own image, with hands that can wield forks, trowels, rakes and strimmers, because he had discovered he wouldn't have time to tend to all the gardens he created on Earth!

Garden God saw all that he had made, and it was good. By the seventh day, Garden God had finished the work he had been doing, and rested. He advised mankind to do the same. His creation was good - but was it good enough? Garden God was worried that mankind wouldn't get on top of the garden maintenance in the six workdays he had given them, so when no one was looking, on the seventh day, he created humans that wouldn't need to conform to his maximum weekly working hours: the GoodGymers. Those people would run, walk or cycle on a holy day to help the elderly in their gardens and wouldn't accept any payment for their service. Garden God looked again at his creation, and now he thought it was very, very good!

One Sunday, two GoodGym pilgrims ran from one place of mowship to another to celebrate Garden God and his creation. Wherever they went, they left the nave and the sacristy of each garden temple beautiful. That day, Sevan laboured at the entrances to the places of mowship, and Kash worked behind the altars.

In the shrine owned by Mrs P, a face of the Garden God himself was growing on a tree trunk in the back garden, and it was a great honour for Kash to feel his presence while she walked in circles and mowed a considerable patch of long grass there. At the same time, at the driveway, Sevan, on his knees, was diligently mowshipping Garden God by removing all the weeds growing between the cobblestones.

The Garden God priestesses, Mrs P and her daughter Ms Z, were very grateful to GoodGymers for making their shrine a place of mowship they could be proud of! Hearing such praise, Sevan and Kash had no choice but to go for a long 8 km run to help yet another garden in the afternoon.