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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... trees and plants. He is not an amorphous deity but the living God, the Ultimate Person, the ineffable One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy. He is the Great Creator; He called into being all things, and in Him everything finds ...
... trees and plants. He is not an amorphous deity but the living God, the Ultimate Person, the ineffable One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy. He is the Great Creator; He called into being all things, and in Him everything finds ...
Pagina 4
... tree that a wise man sees," William Blake wisely observed. (The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, 35) One way the unseen world communicates to us is by offering a myriad of metaphors for living. For instance, a dahlia as a ...
... tree that a wise man sees," William Blake wisely observed. (The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, 35) One way the unseen world communicates to us is by offering a myriad of metaphors for living. For instance, a dahlia as a ...
Pagina 7
... The previous owners were not gardeners; while they kept the lawn nicely trimmed, they also allowed an Odd assortment of brush and trees, mainly wild cherry, mulberry, and willow, to grow at. 7 CHAPTER ONE Let's Make It New.
... The previous owners were not gardeners; while they kept the lawn nicely trimmed, they also allowed an Odd assortment of brush and trees, mainly wild cherry, mulberry, and willow, to grow at. 7 CHAPTER ONE Let's Make It New.
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Thoughts on Tending the Soil and the Soul Rolland Hein. trees, mainly wild cherry, mulberry, and willow, to grow at ... Tree removal came first. The smallest ones and the brush I tackled myself, with axe and adz, felling trunks and ...
Thoughts on Tending the Soil and the Soul Rolland Hein. trees, mainly wild cherry, mulberry, and willow, to grow at ... Tree removal came first. The smallest ones and the brush I tackled myself, with axe and adz, felling trunks and ...
Pagina 10
... trees that serve no pleasing or constructive purpose. Saying yes to God is like engaging an expert landscape artist who will, if given a free hand, work to transform one's life into a thing of beauty in his sight. The old, natural life ...
... trees that serve no pleasing or constructive purpose. Saying yes to God is like engaging an expert landscape artist who will, if given a free hand, work to transform one's life into a thing of beauty in his sight. The old, natural life ...
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