Keep the faith

Many years ago, there was a movie named 'Being There', starring the great comedian Peter Sellers. Sellers played a character named Chance, who had spent his entire life as a gardener in the mansion of his wealthy employer. Chance was extremely simple-minded, to put it politely. He had only tended to the garden and watched TV all his life. After his benefactor's death, he is forced to go out into the world and, through a series of amusing misunderstandings, becomes recognised as a great expert on the economy. He achieves this reputation by simply repeating basic facts about gardening: "As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. The plant will grow" and "After the winter, spring comes, and there is growth." At that time, it seemed funny that people could take such ridiculously simple