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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... divine wisdom in creation. “Zeus made all things," says an Orphic line, "and Bacchus perfected them." This perfecting is the creation of beauty; God created the universe, and his Son, our first- born brother, created the beauty of it ...
... divine wisdom in creation. “Zeus made all things," says an Orphic line, "and Bacchus perfected them." This perfecting is the creation of beauty; God created the universe, and his Son, our first- born brother, created the beauty of it ...
Pagina 3
... divine ingenuity, and their wonders increase our awe of Him. The natural world is ideally suited for our true needs. Great wisdom lies in being rightly related to it. The Bible states that "by faith we understand that the INTRODUCTION c” 3.
... divine ingenuity, and their wonders increase our awe of Him. The natural world is ideally suited for our true needs. Great wisdom lies in being rightly related to it. The Bible states that "by faith we understand that the INTRODUCTION c” 3.
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... divine Under every grief and pine Runs a ioy with silhen twine It is right it should he so Man was made for fog and woe And when this we rightly hnow Through the world we safely g0. (lbid., 494-95) Any goals a person pursues require ...
... divine Under every grief and pine Runs a ioy with silhen twine It is right it should he so Man was made for fog and woe And when this we rightly hnow Through the world we safely g0. (lbid., 494-95) Any goals a person pursues require ...
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... desire is our working to make better whatever situation we find ourselves in. The divine energies expend themselves most efficiently in the lives of those who take as their uppermost purpose the glorifying of 16 N3 GROWING WITH MY GARDEN.
... desire is our working to make better whatever situation we find ourselves in. The divine energies expend themselves most efficiently in the lives of those who take as their uppermost purpose the glorifying of 16 N3 GROWING WITH MY GARDEN.
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Cuprins
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7 | |
13 | |
19 | |
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 |
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
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