RE: Garden Poem
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'" <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: RE: Garden Poem
- From: "* S* <S*@Schwabe.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:10:07 -0700
Wonderful poem, Jill. Thanks for the reminder to see Him in all His
creation.
Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is a little old-fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter
I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jill cline [c*@scnc.sps.k12.mi.us]
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 7:53 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Garden Poem
>
>
> Hi-I wrote this this morning after a "tour" through the gardens, which
> are featuring buddleia, blackberry lily, heliopsis, purple coneflower,
> liatris, monarda, gladiolus, dahlias, cannas, rudbeckia,and salvia (to
> name a few)....
>
> Thought it might be enjoyable for you all who love gardens as I do.
>
> IN THE GARDEN
>
> Although a garden treats the eye,
> it also calms the soul.
> Just being in a garden
> can help to make you whole.
>
> For you can plant the seed
> and work the soil
> but it's God who sends the rains
> and it's God whose grand creation
> rewards your daily pains.
>
> You know, I see His hand in every leaf
> -each intricate design
> and in the cycle of the seasons,
> if I stop to take the time.
>
> And if, instead of wildly weeding,
> I will sit and breathe and BE,
> it is often in the garden
> the Divine comes close to me.
>
> Jill Cline
> 7-22-99
>
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