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My Garden is the Place

Home » Garden Moments » My Garden is the Place
Daily readings compare to daily garden visits

by Shelley S. Cramm In: Garden Moments on Nov 6, 2014

What is “—the place where my thoughts collect and form into order?”

from “November 5th,” A Day at A Time
Gardeners, aren’t we quick to answer the prompt of this little book with great delight: My garden is the place! Whether “my” garden is the yard out back, pots on a patio or window sill, or a public park I walk through regularly, how happy I am, O Lord, to have a place to ponder you. As I work with my hands or wander about, the sights and wonders I take in through my senses fill me, aligning me with your majesty and wisdom.

How many are your works, Lord! In wisdom you made them all

Psalm 104:24 NIV

Immersed in garden work, my thinking becomes ordered, prioritizing the demands of the day under the influence of frewhite coneflower volunteersh air, subtle splendor, and God’s infusing promise. The routine of watering, raking leaves, and other putterings ground my former fears in His grandeur and goodness.

This week I spied a new coneflower bloom, mysteriously volunteered despite the falling leaves that signal winter’s coming. “May I feel God’s mystery there, and an overwhelming sense of energy,” the little book goes onto say, as if foretelling the excitement of finding a flower that defies the change of seasons.

Arise my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.

Song of Songs 2:13 NIV

Once the winter keeps me inside, I must keep “the place where my thoughts collect and form into order.” This little book suggests that an appointment with God in prayer and meditation is just that: a structure, implying dimension and fortitude. A Day at a Time daily reflectionsMy thoughts need God’s shelter and guarding to be ordered in His ways.

Cause me to understand the way of your precepts, that I may meditate on your wonderful deeds.

Psalm 119:27 NIV

Come with me, the Lord calls, to understand your difficulties will not defeat you. Through my hassles, may I hail the One who has called me according to his purpose. My garden welcomed me into the protection of God’s presence with delight these spring and long summer months, ordering my thoughts alongside His goodness that I could taste and see every day. Yet as sojourns to the garden subside, I am reminded that the Lord’s call remains, ushering me to His secret place. It is not the garden, after all—His presence itself is the place.

Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, Lord.

Psalm 89:15 NIV

Quotations from “November 5th,” A Day at a Time, ©1976 CompCare Publishers, ISBN 0-89638-000-9

 

Photo Credits: ©2014 Shelley S. Cramm   This little treasure, A Day at a Time, was passed down to us from my husband Topher’s father, Dr. Richard E. Cramm. Above, the book open to November 5th, pictured with a blooming lorapetalum shrub during drizzly morning. Below, the small treasure nestled in fallen redbud leaves.

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  1. Charlotte Macfee

    November 7, 2014 at 9:19 am

    I’m not familiar with this little book but the scriptures are pearls on which to meditate. Thank you again, Shelley, for connecting our daily gardening tasks with God’s word.

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  2. Deborah McKissic

    November 7, 2014 at 10:54 am

    Thanks, Shelly, for these thoughts…I walked through my gardens yesterday and found a rosebush blooming..one long stem, with 6 roses hanging on dearly and one bud! The rest of the bush had made rosehips…I cut this long stem and set it in a vase on my dresser..to enjoy the roses till the last petal falls…just in time as last night we had a heavy frost….like the coneflower in this reading…a sign from God to listen to our gardens and enjoy them at all times..something wonderful is always there no matter the season..I love the fresh fallen snow on the tall, lanky perennials I did not get cut back…the birds love the seeds….

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    • Shelley

      November 10, 2014 at 11:26 am

      Deborah, amen, “something wonderful is always there no matter the season!” A garden moment like you describe is God’s most beautiful way of slowing us down. Aren’t we so blessed?! Our first frost is headed here this week, too. Stay warm!

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  3. Shelley

    November 10, 2014 at 11:32 am

    Hi Mom, love your comment, it’s my delight to bring it all back to God & garden:-)

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