Almost Eden Garden Retreat

Don't have a front or back-yard garden?

... take to the country roads and see God's wild-flower gardens in full bloom!

Linger a little longer than you were going to and be surprised!

And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day:...

Gen.3:8

Retreat to Gardens; earthy glimpse of Eden’s Paradise

Where sweat and toil earns bread and spoil rich with wonder’s surprise

Work hard for what you take; give thanks to He who doth provide

And fill your place ‘mongst human race with kind and humble pride

...and if the load on living’s road gets long and hard to bear

Then Retreat to a Garden (methinks God still walketh there)

Where in the cool of day and in the hush of green-spun things

There’s something ‘bout a garden from which hope eternal springs

After the push of planting as dirt-dreams start to take shape

Then retreat to the garden for little Grand Escape

And listen to the fiddler of sun-shadows play on leaf

And let the lilies of the field heal love’s heart-gnawing grief

When common care becomes the colour of Melancholy

Then retreat to a garden for some flower-therapy/there-happy

Let worry take a break where breezes sigh and tendrils wind

And let the Voice of God speak through bloom-bowers He designed

© Janet Martin

Intro to Summer from the book Shape of a Year ...
 
Oh, I wish I could share the whole July chapter with you!