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34 The Parish Magazine - January 2022 the sciences HOME & GARDEN — 1 Breathe You show your majesty In every star that shines, And every time we breathe. Your glory, God revealed From distant galaxies To here beneath our skin. Recipe of the month Creamy tomato risotto A tasty easy meal from BBC Good Food By Dr Ruth M Bancewicz, church engagement director at The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge Zimmytws, dreamstime.com The words above are from the song 'Magnificent' by Matt Redman and Jonas Myrin. They speak volumes to me as a scientist. Redman is an astronomy geek who has ‘an appreciation for the universe that surrounds us, particularly its unique ability to lift our hearts to see how massive and mysterious God truly is’.* The microscopic level on the other hand — what goes on ‘beneath our skin’ — is less available to ordinary people. I have had the privilege of exploring this world to my heart’s content, and what I’ve seen has given me such a sense of awe that I want to share it with others. Every time you breathe, a series of air pockets with a combined surface area the size of a tennis court is bathed with oxygen. These minute air pockets are covered with blood vessels. The boundary between air and blood is so thin that oxygen and carbon dioxide can diffuse from one to the other. ALL ARE NUMBERED When your heart beats at a normal rate, a single red blood cell takes about three quarters of a second to travel through the small blood vessels in your lungs. But in just one third of that time, a quarter of a second, that cell has already received all the oxygen it needs from the air. So, when you exercise, causing your heart rate to increase and the blood to flow faster, you’re still getting plenty of oxygen — as long as you keep breathing! Redman and Myrin wrote, 'You are higher than we ever could imagine, And closer than our eyes could ever see.' The universe demonstrates God’s awesome power. This is a place made by a being whose imagination is not limited by time and space. Biology, on the other hand, helps to remind me of God’s creativity and closeness. I am a product of a long and painstaking process of continued development over aeons of time. Beneath my skin are incredibly detailed, beautifully regulated processes that give me life. Jesus said that ‘even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.’ The knowledge that God intentionally made me and knows every detail of my physiology is both amazing and humbling. *Indescribable: Encountering the Glory of God in the Beauty of the Universe, Matt Redman & Louis Giglio (David C. Cook, 2011 Ingredients — 400g can chopped tomato — 250g risotto rice — 4 tbsp grated parmesan — knob of butter — 1 rosemary sprig, finely chopped — 1 tbsp olive oil — 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped — 1 litre vegetable stock — 300g cherry tomato, halved — 1 onion, finely chopped — small pack basil, roughly torn Method Put the chopped tomatoes and half the stock into a food processor and pulse until smooth. Pour into a saucepan with the remaining stock, bring to a gentle simmer and keep over a low heat. Meanwhile, place the butter and oil in the base of a large saucepan and heat gently until the butter has melted. Add the onion and gently cook for 6-8 minutes until softened. Stir in the garlic and rosemary, then cook for another minute. Add the rice and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Add the hot stock and tomato mixture about a quarter at a time. Let the risotto cook, stirring often, adding more stock as it is absorbed. After you have added half the stock, add the cherry tomatoes. After 20-25 minutes, the rice should be creamy and tender, the cherry tomatoes softened and all of the stock should be used up. Cover and leave for 1 minute, then stir in the basil. Serve sprinkled with parmesan and black pepper. Ufuk Uyanik , dreamstime.com Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! FREE give away! We have a limited number of The Parish Magazine Binders and copies of the Gordon Nutbrown book, A Thames Parish Magazine, to give away FREE while stocks last! The binders hold 12 magazines. The three volumes of the book, published 2016, give a unique history of the Parish of St Andrew's from 1869 - 2015. Interested? Contact editor (details on page 42)
HOME & GARDEN — 2 The Parish Magazine - January 2022 35 The Dig for Victory garden at Quorn & Woodhouse is set out as it would have been in the 1940's Help our planet by digging for victory! That's the message The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) wants to get across to everyone with a garden with a modern-day ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign aimed at helping to tackle climate change. The original ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign was set up during World War II by the British Ministry of Agriculture. It encouraged everyone, men, women and children, to grow their own food, and in doing so, help overcome the harsh rationing of food caused by the war. Open spaces everywhere were transformed into allotments, from domestic gardens to public parks — even the lawns outside the Tower of London were turned into vegetable patches. A massive propaganda leaflet campaign aimed to both ensure that people had enough to eat, and that morale was kept high. The current recession, as well as a new awareness of ‘food miles’ and climate change, Peewam, dreamstime.com has increased the demand for vegetable growing plots and the trend is supported by new, comparable government initiatives. In response to this, The RHS is asking the UK’s 30 million gardeners to consider digging up their garden paving and to plant trees, grass and bee-friendly flora, instead, but this time, rather than for human survival, the 'Dig for Victory' campaign is to help nature survive. The RHS has calculated that if every gardener in the UK grew at least one medium-sized tree in their garden, then that would be the equivalent of storing the carbon produced from driving 11 million times around the planet. Research from a YouGov survey has found that only 19% of gardeners have adopted sustainable gardening practices, so there is lots of room for improvement! IN THE ARK AT ST ANDREW'S CHURCH Sunday 16 January at 3pm Our theme is HOPE — we HOPE to see you there! revkate@sonningparish.org.uk
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