Devotions Blog
where Bible verses sprout, grow roots, bloom, bear fruit,
and draw you deeper into God’s delight
Growing Barley’s Mystery
Growing barley is nothing short of a true delight! This humble, easy-to-cultivate annual grass will…
Find Garden Hope in Christ
Finding Garden Hope has been our pursuit through these Lenten weeks, and now we arrive…
Find Garden Hope for Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday celebrated this weekend ushers us into a poignant moment of hope-answered praise for…
Find Garden Hope in Spring
Finally the big day is here, the first day of spring, March 20th. Does your…
Find Garden Hope in Waiting
By definition hope involves waiting, because what we hope for is what we are looking…
Find Garden Hope in Abraham
How do we find garden hope in Abraham? For starters, his is a seed story!…
Hidden Hope in Esther
Tonight begins the celebration of Purim—a doomed, dark day in the history of the Jewish…
Find Garden Hope in Psalm 146
Hope is a garden defined! By its very working, the garden gives us something to…
The Crown Year
Our year concludes in movements of contending and persevering: are you as eager as I…
Savor the Day Our Savior is Born
O gardeners, I imagine the flurry of this joyful eve has you too busy to…
Let There Be Light
Behold the most brilliant, promising, elemental Words spoken over the earth, as effective and powerful…
Thanksgiving Devotions
Happy Thanksgiving, dear gardeners! Sending you devotions to savor when you find a moment on…
The Wheat Prayers
What are the Wheat Prayers? My name for two passages linked across Biblical history and…
Fall Colors in Bible-to-Garden Lentil Stew
Featured today in the Devotions Blog is a recipe for Lentil Stew with Fennel &…
Israel Prayer Garden: A Visit & A Poem
Dear gardeners, let us share in Israel’s joy in the best way we know how…
Bee Still
Stillness…ceasing activity…seems a funny practice to learn from a bee! Quivering, flurry-filled movement, constant query…
Digging to the Roots of the Fall Feasts
The roots of the Fall Feasts might surprise you! Dig down past the hallowed traditions…
How to Start a Compost Pile
If you are starting a garden, or returning to the yard to start a garden…
When Does Your Mustard Flower?
The answer to the question, “When does your mustard flower?” tells you much about your…
Under Your Own Vine and Fig Tree
“Everyone under their own vine and fig tree” are words made eternal by the Spirit…
Top 10 Gardening Verses of the Bible
God’s planting a garden in Eden was just the beginning of His love affair with…
In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.
James 1:21 The Message
About the Author
Shelley S. Cramm loves to see the ancient words of Scripture come alive in today’s gardens. She is the author of devotions for God’s Word for Gardeners Bible, writes the Devotions Blog at www.gardenindelight.com, and speaks enthusiastically to garden clubs and faith groups about the connection of garden to table to Scripture to life.
Wife and mother of five, Shelley’s inspiration to write a gardener’s Bible grew out of a routine of morning journaling and an enduring hope to finish up the laundry and go outside and play! Transplanted Californians, Shelley and her husband Topher live and garden happily in Irving, Texas.
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Coming Soon!
New Biblical botanical gift book series
Author Shelley S. Cramm is collaborating with BRIT Press, the publishing department of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) to create an illustrated, four-book series of God’s Word for Gardeners devotions, perfect gift for the gardener in your life. BRIT is an international scientific research and learning center in Fort Worth, Texas, conducting scholarly research to discover, understand, and conserve plants and all life.
Help this venture with your “seed” money and be a part of this unprecedented publishing project! Your tax-deductible donation to BRIT Press will fund all publishing costs and help others to connect to the wonder of the Lord in the landscape.
Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom
Song of Songs 7:12 NIV
Plant Guide
explore the plants of the Bible and see what might grow in your garden and flourish your faith from garden to table
Inspired by the Book
God’s Word for Gardeners Bible is a devotional Bible for gardeners, featuring daily essays on a range of garden themes, Bible plants, landscapes of Scripture, and quotations from garden writing across the history and “how to” of gardening. Enjoy digging into the oldest gardening book from a gardener’s point of view.
No other book examines gardening knowledge and wisdom in Scripture with the devotion of God’s Word for Gardeners Bible. Discover that gardening is not merely a quaint metaphor but an essential tool in growing a deep faith in God and His Word.
Attention, all! See the marvels of God! He plants flowers and trees all over the earth
Psalm 46:8 The Message
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