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Thursday, September 5, 2024

From a Flower-Frilled/Filled Lesson Book

Ps.65:9-13

You [c]visit the earth and water it,
You greatly enrich it;
The river of God is full of water;
You provide their grain,
For so You have prepared it.
10 You water its ridges abundantly,
You settle its furrows;
You make it soft with showers,
You bless its growth.

11 You crown the year with Your goodness,
And Your paths drip with abundance.
12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness,
And the little hills rejoice on every side.
13 The pastures are clothed with flocks;
The valleys also are covered with grain;
They shout for joy, they also sing.

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Gardening and life are a fine-tuned medley
of deep disappointment and darling delight!

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Today's post is a medley of garden photos and quotes...
and a poem inspired by garden-blessings...











Long after final fruit is plucked
And cobs are shucked and gourds are gleaned
And herbs are hung to dry on rungs
Indoors, and the last leaf is weaned

Long after flower-stems are stripped
And fronds are clipped and furrows turned
I will reflect, time and again
On garden-lessons I have learned

...of disappointment and delight
For such is life; wonder and woe
Laughter, lament, beauty and blight
Patience, (for plants take time to grow)

…learning, that love is worth the years
Of work, of Waiting‘s by-and-by
That gladness grows sweeter through tears
Perfection, more than meets the eye

That it takes both the sun and rain
To make Growing Things flourish, oh
That life mingles pleasure and pain
Into love’s vintage afterglow

...that without the wise purpose of
The careful, cruel pruning knife
The plant will not be strong enough
To bear the waiting weight of life
  
Long after kale's last curl is culled
And frost, its temp’ring touch has wrought
I will remain humbly thankful
For lessons that my garden taught

...not in some, brick-walled lecture hall
But in a sun and breeze-kissed nook
Where crickets cheep and petals fall
From a flower-frilled lesson-book

© Janet Martin








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