From a Garden-Lover's Point of View

The kiss of the sun for pardon,

The song of the birds for mirth,--

One is nearer God's heart in a garden 

Than anywhere else on earth.

From God's Garden by

Dorothy Frances Gurney

Gen.3:8

And they heard the sound of the Lord God 

walking in the garden in the cool of the day...

Time began in a garden; little wonder then that we

Feel closer to God's heartbeat in nature's tranquility

To witness the unfolding of a seed, to bud, to flow'r

Grants the sacred Beholding of God's majesty and pow'r 

What privilege to labour where the world's noise is subdued

By He whose lavish Favour fills our hearts with gratitude 

...and kindles genial ardour for the holy ground of soil

Beneath cloud-tumbled arbour we worship with sweat and toil

We find friendship in flowers and soft serenade of breeze

As we linger in bowers with birds, butterflies and bees 

Content with wonder driven from a plot of awesome worth

Gleaning glimpses of Heaven from the gardens of the earth

Where, though this is no Eden; (Adam's curse is ours to bear)

God still walks in the garden; oh, what joy to meet Him there 

Better than lust for leisure or the futile quest for Things

Is the unparalleled pleasure only a garden brings 

Janet Martin

of seed...

to bud...

...to flow'r! 

In The Garden- Alan Jackson

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