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Monday, August 1, 2022

Sitting in the Garden (is a lovely thing to do)








'You have a lot of garden benches', commented one of my sisters recently.
'Do you use them?'

I guess she knows how it goes!
Sitting in the garden is a lovely thing to do
but easier said than done
because gardening and nice gardens don't just happen!
They are a constant labor of love
/aka weeding, hoeing, pruning, dusting and picking!
But here and there every gardener needs to take the time to sit a bit
And fellowship with the First Garden-Creator,
 in the cool of the day....


Sitting in a garden is a lovely thing to do
To marvel at God’s art and let His laughter run us through
To commune with the busy/buzzy bee, the bird, the butterfly
To join the applause of the tree where gauzy breezes sigh

Sitting in a garden in the middle of the day
Grants worry sudden pardon and eases hurry away
For, basking in the beauty where a flower bower brims
Is like sitting where God's music sheets run rife with petal-hymns

The handiwork of He who instills buds and seeds with bloom
Constantly thrills; only God fills and threads nature’s grand loom
He steals our breath; Self dies ten-thousand deaths as She beholds
Perfection’s hues; pinks, chartreuse, blues, whites, reds, purples and golds

Sitting in the garden is earth’s glimpse of paradise
Happiness in purest mirth and labour’s sweetest prize
Work and worship’s Heaven; what a lovely place to be
Sitting in a garden is like sitting at/on God’s knee

© Janet Martin

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