The Garden in Delight blog leads you deeper into prayer this holy season: As the garden wakes up in spring to the work of overturning soil, pulling up dead plants, and digging spots for new ones, so let us put those shovels, spades, and trowels to work as metaphor and Dig into Prayer. At its […]
Garden tools serve as handy metaphors for the disciplines of the faith. Just as tools help cultivate a garden, faith disciplines help us nurture a relationship with God. Though often they amplify the heart cry for God to fix things! Likewise, today’s featured tools help highlight and reinforce the cultivating, nurturing, coaxing, waiting, tending nature […]
O Gardeners, let us turn our gardens into places of prayer, uniting our minds and voices for Patriot Day, Friday, September 11th. Our soldiers, police officers, firefighters, coast guard, and so many more offer their strength in service; likewise may we commit strength from our garden service—watering, weeding, tidying up—to seeking the Lord. The people […]
A Barley Field Prayer from the NIV God’s Word for Gardeners Bible, inspired by the troops who stood firm in a barley field. At a place where there was a field full of barley, the troops fled from the Philistines. 14 But they took their stand in the middle of the field. They defended […]
