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 12
... keep from singing? in some mysterious way, making a new garden, spurred on by the hopes and dreams of approximating a corner of Eden, can be a humble type of what God is in the process of making happen in individual lives and in the ...
... keep from singing? in some mysterious way, making a new garden, spurred on by the hopes and dreams of approximating a corner of Eden, can be a humble type of what God is in the process of making happen in individual lives and in the ...
Pagina 20
... . Remove four or five inches of dirt, lay a strip of plastic to keep weeds from growing, add an inch or so of sand or stone siftings (of which any quarry has an abundance), and then place the steppers 20 N3 GROWING WITH MY GARDEN.
... . Remove four or five inches of dirt, lay a strip of plastic to keep weeds from growing, add an inch or so of sand or stone siftings (of which any quarry has an abundance), and then place the steppers 20 N3 GROWING WITH MY GARDEN.
Pagina 21
... keeping the sides of the path as straight as possible. Fill in between the stones with limestone siftings. Creeping thyme planted-not too frequently-in the cracks is attractive, provided one keeps the plants from creeping all over the ...
... keeping the sides of the path as straight as possible. Fill in between the stones with limestone siftings. Creeping thyme planted-not too frequently-in the cracks is attractive, provided one keeps the plants from creeping all over the ...
Pagina 22
... keep the pathway open, Your home is at the end." Then came another master, Who did not love mankind, And planted on the pathway Gold flowers for them to find. And mankind saw the bright flowers, That, glitt'ring in the sun, Quite hid ...
... keep the pathway open, Your home is at the end." Then came another master, Who did not love mankind, And planted on the pathway Gold flowers for them to find. And mankind saw the bright flowers, That, glitt'ring in the sun, Quite hid ...
Pagina 23
... keep the narrow way. And when the sun shines brightly Tend flowers that God has given And keep the pathway open That leads you on to heaven. (Complete Poems, Prose, 8 Plays, 503) Living one's life is a good deal like following a path ...
... keep the narrow way. And when the sun shines brightly Tend flowers that God has given And keep the pathway open That leads you on to heaven. (Complete Poems, Prose, 8 Plays, 503) Living one's life is a good deal like following a path ...
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