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How To Plant Your Garden
First, you come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses.
(image credit: taken by my Aunty Ellen)
For the garden of your daily living:-
Plant three rows of peas:
Peace of mind
Peace of heart
Peace of soul
Peace of heart
Peace of soul
Plant four rows of squash:
Squash gossip
Squash indifference
Squash grumbling
Squash selfishness
Squash indifference
Squash grumbling
Squash selfishness
Plant Four Rows of Lettuce:
Lettuce be faithful
Lettuce be kind
Lettuce be patient
Lettuce really love one another
Lettuce be kind
Lettuce be patient
Lettuce really love one another
No Garden is Without Turnips:
Turnip for meetings
Turnip for service
Turnip to help one another
Turnip for service
Turnip to help one another
To Conclude Our Garden You Must Have Thyme:
Thyme for God
Thyme for each other
Thyme for family
Thyme for friends
Thyme for each other
Thyme for family
Thyme for friends
Water freely with patience and cultivate with love. There will be much fruit in your garden because you reap what you sow!
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"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." Galatians 5:22-23
I am not sure of the name of the hymn but at my grandma's recent funeral we listened to the hymn (at her request) that starts "I come to the garden alone when the dew is still on the roses." As an avid gardener I think she would have liked this post.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your thoughts, Danielle. I wondered where the first line actually came from that lead into the rest of the script. I googled the hymn you were talking about... how lovely it is:
DeleteI come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses.
Refrain
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
He speaks, and the sound of His voice,
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,
And the melody that He gave to me
Within my heart is ringing.
Refrain
I’d stay in the garden with Him
Though the night around me be falling,
But He bids me go; through the voice of woe
His voice to me is calling.
Refrain