This week is the beginning of the Sisters Quilt show, where thousands of people from all over come to a small town in central Oregon to take classes, view and buy quilts and all the supplies to make them. Quilts shops in the area open their doors to the multitudes...
Yeaterday, various people opened their homes and gardens to showcase quilts as well...the gardens ranged from simple to elaborate, from easy care to continual maintenance...all beautiful in their own way...tucked in the woods, or open to the spectacular views of the Cascades...fountains of all shapes and sizes, gurgling with life giving water...floral and vegetable displays...
One thing they all had in common was garden gates...since the deer population is prolific in this area, each gardener had built some kind of gate and fencing to detour the munching bandits...
We had to enter into each garden through those gates to enjoy the lushness of the beauty displayed...
What a picture of the true Gate...we enter through Christ into his salvation ...we find pasture in Him...His beauty, his provision...thank YOU...
John 10:9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
Psalm 100:4-5 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Psalm 118:20-21 This is the gate of the Lord through which the righteous may enter.
I will give you thanks, for you answered me; you have become my salvation.
Isaiah 26:2-4 Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.
You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.
Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
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