Beautiful gardens don't just happen. They are planned, nourished, and cared for. To be at there best they need daily care.

A Gardener's prayer Song

I patiently wait for the Master Gardener down upon my knees.

My heart's desire is to see it as He sees.

He teaches me how to pull the weeds out of my mind and heart.

The Helper comes and fills the thirsty plant's desire from the start.

The Master Gardener's Father greets us with the tools we need along the way.

He guides our hand and strengthens us as we work in the garden each day.

The Master Gardener, His Father, and The Helper patiently teach me all I need to know.

Together we visit other gardeners and help them work and sow.

Sometimes I see others longing to have a garden too.

I bring them to the Master Gardener and what joy to start a garden so new.

It is good to daily tend the garden that it may grow well.

For when I garden is neglected everyone can tell.

I being a gardener and I pray this garden looks it's best.

For it belongs to the Master Gardener I pray by it He is blest.

I pray it will be His crowing glory when it's eternally on display.

I pray it also now brings Him honor and glory night and day. Amen

Tend To The Garden

As the weather starts to get nice off and on my mind turns to tending my garden. During the cold and rainy time I let it go a lot. A few weeks ago I pulled some weeds, my husband cut the grass, and I redid some of my plants. Then the rains came and everything got left untended for a few weeks. I have a three or four areas I haven't worked on at all for a very long time. Part of me can't wait to get it all under control and looking good. Part of me is dreading the chunk of time it is going to take, the daily watering routine and all that work. I tell myself every year if  I would just get out there all year long, when there is a break in the weather then it wouldn't be so hard. But I have so many other things I would rather be doing and in the winter I get lazy. But this is a lot like it is with my spiritual garden too. If  I would only tend to it daily things would be better and easier. The longer I neglect tending to my spiritual garden the worse it looks and the more work there is to do. Also the weaker it gets for lack of  food (the bible), Water (time with God getting filled with the Spirit daily), weeding and hoeing (prayer), planting and sowing (Fellowship) care in general (doing what's right). Why eventually my garden could die from neglect! Depending of course on how long I neglect it. I pray I never get anywhere near to neglecting it that much! One thing that helps me to not get lazy and neglect my spiritual garden is I remember whose garden it really is. It belongs to God. And because I love Him so much I want Him to have the best garden. I certainly don't want Him to be ashamed of  it or me. And I certainly don't want to be ashamed of it or myself. When I say garden I mean my spiritual life. When I say me I mean the gardener. But I am not the only gardener because I have the Master gardener and His Father and The Helper to work with me on this garden daily. I need them to teach me what to do, to strengthen me, guide me and more so that we can have a beautiful garden. And so I can help others with there gardens by working along side them, and bring them to the Master Gardener. And so I can help others start gardens by introducing them to the Master Gardener. And some day when it is on display I pray it will bring Him glory.

A little sleep a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep-- So shall your poverty come upon you like a robber, and your need like an armed man. Proverbs 6:10-11, I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding; and there it was, all overgrown with thorns; it's surface was covered with nettles; it's stone wall was broken down. When I saw it, I considered it well; I looked on it and received instruction: A little sleep a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest; So your poverty will come like a prowler, and your want like an armed man. Proverbs 24:30-34

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