This is how Providence acts to direct the activity of the human spirit. When winter begins, it looks like all vegetables will die. The wind sweeps away flowers and leaves, but it keeps something hidden, dry and powdery: the seeds and all plant life are found inside. Providence takes care of this … The storm takes them off, and the waters bring them along until they find land and the ray of sunlight that is needed to make them flower.In this way, when the barbarian times and the evil seasons of human life arrive, we see that all these flowers of poetry and eloquence wither, it seems like all plant life and thought will perish. It shelters, however, in issues that seem small, dry and arid: still, Providence takes charge. They thus cross through three or four centuries; the Word escor