Growing With My Garden: Thoughts on Tending the Soil and the SoulWipf and Stock Publishers, 8 ian. 2014 - 134 pagini Rolland Hein has woven together two of his passions--poetry and growing things--in a book that serves as both a Christian devotional and a gardening primer. The garden provides so many illustrations for life and growth for us as spiritual persons. Hein's illustrations are full of poignant quotes from such great poets as Simone Weil, Wiiliam Blake, Emily Dickinson, and John Updike. This book will serve as a tremendous resource for both seasoned and first-time gardeners. Included are a bibliography and recommended sources for gardening supplies. |
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Pagina 1
... God's heart in the garden Than anywhere on earth. Doggerel, yes, but it's true: in my garden, more than any other place, I feel something of the presence of God. To say so is not to reduce Him to the life of trees and plants. He is not ...
... God's heart in the garden Than anywhere on earth. Doggerel, yes, but it's true: in my garden, more than any other place, I feel something of the presence of God. To say so is not to reduce Him to the life of trees and plants. He is not ...
Pagina 2
... God as a means of calling our attention to Himself. Simone Weil observes that since a genuine love of our fellow beings and of religious practices is almost entirely absent from people today, “the beauty of the world is almost the only ...
... God as a means of calling our attention to Himself. Simone Weil observes that since a genuine love of our fellow beings and of religious practices is almost entirely absent from people today, “the beauty of the world is almost the only ...
Pagina 3
... God dwelling in our souls and goes out to God present in the universe. It also is like a sacrament. (Waiting. for. God,. 102-4). I. As we meet God's Spirit in nature He nurtures and enhances the joys of life, He strengthens our spirit and ...
... God dwelling in our souls and goes out to God present in the universe. It also is like a sacrament. (Waiting. for. God,. 102-4). I. As we meet God's Spirit in nature He nurtures and enhances the joys of life, He strengthens our spirit and ...
Pagina 4
... God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear" (Heb. 11:3, Revised Standard Version). Things unseen are ever trying to come to us through things seen; their readiest vehicles are found in the garden— its flowers ...
... God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear" (Heb. 11:3, Revised Standard Version). Things unseen are ever trying to come to us through things seen; their readiest vehicles are found in the garden— its flowers ...
Pagina 5
... God as the Great Gardener of our souls prunes our natures and sends us circumstances designed to bring out our best. This is a book about the truths my garden has shown me of God, of life, and of myself and how I have grown with my ...
... God as the Great Gardener of our souls prunes our natures and sends us circumstances designed to bring out our best. This is a book about the truths my garden has shown me of God, of life, and of myself and how I have grown with my ...
Cuprins
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Let It Be | 27 |
What about Tilth? | 31 |
Seeds Grow but Who Knows How? | 37 |
Give Up and Give Over | 43 |
Therefore 1 Have Hope | 73 |
Showers of Blessing | 77 |
Reality | 81 |
The Moments Satan Cannot Find | 87 |
Waiting for the Harvest | 91 |
Out of Evil Good | 99 |
What I DO Is Me | 105 |
Winter Doldrums | 111 |
Nature Is Never Spent | 49 |
Why Not Simply Pull It Out? | 55 |
A Smile on All Creation | 61 |
Those Terrible Choices | 67 |
Putting on the Beauty | 119 |
The Unimaginable Zero Summer | 125 |
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Growing With My Garden: Thoughts on Tending the Soil and the Soul Rolland Hein Previzualizare limitată - 2014 |
Growing with My Garden: Thoughts on Tending the Soil and the Soul Rolland Hein Previzualizare limitată - 2004 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
abundance amaryllis beauty Bible bloom buds bulbs Christ Christian Collected Poems color Complete Poems compost created creation delight divine drainage earth effect Emily Dickinson eternal faith fertilizer flower bed Frost fruit G. K. Chesterton garden centers Garlic mustard George MacDonald Gerard Manley Hopkins germinating give glorious glory God's grace grow growth harvest heart heaven hope imagination inch keep landscape leaf mold leaves light living Lord lust manure metaphor mind moments morning mystery nature never one's path Paul peat moss perhaps person planning plants promise Prose purchase reality realized redeemed remove repotting righteousness Robert Frost roots Scripture season seed showers Simone Weil soil soul spirit spring summer T. S. Eliot thee things thou thought tilth tray trees true truth vermiculite W.B. Yeats wait weeds William Blake William Wordsworth winter words wrote