Comments on: How gardening fills my life with hope. And secret garden conversations with God

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:45:10 +0000

In reply to Gail Daniels. Your garden sounds lovely. I grow Christmas and Lenten roses too. I am on holiday, and have missed the heat wave entirely, but am looking forward to returning next week, and seeing how my garden has fared!

By: Gail Daniels

Gail Daniels — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 11:51:57 +0000

Thank you Anita for today’s post. I do agree about the blessings of gardening. When I lived overseas and got the news that my Dad had died back in the UK, all I could do was go out into my rather sparse (water shortage) garden and potter out there in my state of shock and numbness, as my brain gradually began to function again and try to think of practical things like booking airline tickets to get home. Now I am in a small ground floor flat, but have a row of pots below my lounge window, which I joyously fill with colourful begonias, geraniums, cosmos and violas, plus try to nurture a couple of roses, a hosta, a peony, a small acer.
I plant miniature iris and snowdrops and crocus bulbs which delight me in spring, and Christmas and lent roses too. Such a joy and another reason to thank God for his bounty, and the sweet refreshing rain he has just sent in our heatwave to save me taking out the daily bucket of water.

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:08:15 +0000

In reply to Andy. Thank you, Andrew and Mrs. Wong! Yes!

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 07:33:51 +0000

I shared this with my wife and she replied…

“This was lovely. I know our garden is very small by comparison but I do love it and I am grateful for it. I love looking down on it from above from the window or over it from the ridge across the burn. Most of all I love it because we have created it together with the Lord’s grace and help.”

It says it all. Thanks.

By: Anita Mathias

Anita Mathias — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:50:33 +0000

In reply to Kathy.

“I know that you are experiencing growth in your writing as well”
I love the quote from Antoine Saint-Exupery I used in the essay–what is essential is invisible to the eye. If there is growth, it is not obvious, but I am hoping there is invisible growth. I am trying to find new sustainable ways to blog without exhausting myself!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:03:59 +0000

I, too, love to garden and experiment with my planting in my small back yard. I have no acreage to speak of and just putter in pots and thin strips of soil to make it blossom with the plantings. I also love to write and find that being outside stimulates my creativity. Gardening brings thoughts in my mind that I can transplant into my story that I am attempting to write. I know that you are experiencing growth in your writing as well and your efforts will be bloom into a living work of art as you continue to converse with God in your garden.