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

Anita Mathias — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:01:08 +0000

I more or less decided to buy our house, after seeing pictures of it online: it had 9 of the 10 things I was praying for. And one of these was a massive garden. Much to my husband’s annoyance, when we viewed the house, I asked to see the garden first. I fell fast in […]

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Stinging Nettle to Butterfly Wings

Anita Mathias — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:08:13 +0000

And how, and how Could that prickly caterpillar –All bristles and danger– Feeding on the stinging nettle in my garden Become a peacock butterfly, Four shimmering iridescent eyes? My God, my God, redeemer, Even today, take my life, The years lost to self-pity, anger and sadness, False starts, wrong directions, promising trails abandoned […]

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Prayer Releases Hope into our Lives

Anita Mathias — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:36:00 +0000

We watched a documentary “The Secret Life of Plants.” A shriveled seedpod waited for the rain to burst it open and release its seeds; fungi waited for rain to release their myriad spores. And in our own lives, prayer releases that rain. When we do not pray, we settle into dry and barren hopelessness, we […]

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