Gardens along the way….2 years later….
Two years ago, due to Covid, the gyms were closed…and it seemed like everything else was closed, locked down, masked…
My trusty little dog and I walked miles, exploring new routes in my part of town…we found beautiful gardens, flowers, vegetables…hidden pathways…met a lot of people who were out and about as we were.
I am still walking those paths…many of the gardens have been let go as people have returned to work, changed work patterns. Many gardens have totally changed as the former residents have moved, new residents with new visions have taken over…
One in particular used to be a beautiful rose garden, now lower maintenance rocks…
Another yard has turned into a bunny pen…with a multitude of black, gray and white bunnies hopping around, keeping the grass short…they watch you as you walk by, hopping from one area to another…or holding completely still, so you won’t “see” them, just as their wild counterparts do distant fields…
Just as the gardens have changed, people have changed, Covid has changed, time has marched inward…but, on the other hand, there is really nothing “new under the sun” as Solomon wrote so many years ago…
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities!
All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.
The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.
All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.
All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”?
It has been already in the ages before us.
Ecclesiastes 1:2-10
But, God is still on the throne, He still reigns supreme…His thoughts are still higher than man’s…He still has a plan …He still doesn’t lie or leave us…He still desires that we seek Him…He still loves us…He still desires that none perish…He still makes good from the bad for those who love Him…
He is still waiting at the door of our hearts, ready to enter …
Thank YOU…
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
Revelation 3:20
And, “You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands; they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment, like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end.”
Hebrews 1:10-12
And, “You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands; they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment, like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end.”
Hebrews 1:10-12
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