Gardens along the way....5...
I took a new route on my early morning walk yesterday...seeing new gardens, new flowers and new scenery ...
Maybe it’s the long self quarantining or the better weather, or plain more-at-home time but the gardens seem brighter, more prolific than last year...or maybe I am more attune or just most thankful to be enjoying the outdoors again...
One thing I have noticed is not just the flowers, but more food gardens...one person I know put in 15+ raised beds for fruits and vegetables.. .little side areas are now sporting small gardens with new growth of vegetables, big garden areas are being cultivated anew ...formerly unused areas sprouting with tiny new growth of numerous veggies...
This is all good for our physical bodies, but also our emotional health...we are planning ahead, thinking of the future, getting some sun and exercise...
Our spiritual side is fed also...time for meditation on the miracle of growth, God’s provision...”sweat of the brow”...and many other things that God is teaching us...time for quiet prayer, praise, gratefulness, worship...and the potential for sharing our extra...praise for “first fruits”...
The gardens also brought to mind my grandparents stories of “victory” gardens. Planted for sustenance, but also color and vibrancy after years of war, loss of lives, these gardens raised people’s spirits to see growth and beauty again...
We have a garden of our soul to cultivate as well... will we be good soil to grow good fruits, eternal fruits?
Reading right now through the epistles in the New Testament, I find the authors cultivating in so many communities, churches, people...a planting of seeds for growth...encouragement, warmth, “Sonshine”, weeding of wrongs, everlasting teaching that reaches down through the ages...God given words...that never die...
Thank YOU for gardens along the way...You bless my soul with so much...
The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
Isaiah 58:11
Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
Genesis 9:20
“‘A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord .
Leviticus 27:30
For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.
Isaiah 61:11
23 But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”
Matthew 13:23
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