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
... 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 an amorphous deity but the living God, the Ultimate Person, the ineffable ...
... 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 an amorphous deity but the living God, the Ultimate Person, the ineffable ...
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.
Pagina 9
... is the sole end of Christianity: to lead us from all thoughts of rest and repose here, to separate us from worldly tempers, to deliver us from the folly of our passions, and to unite us to God, the true. LET's MAKE IT New C” 9.
... is the sole end of Christianity: to lead us from all thoughts of rest and repose here, to separate us from worldly tempers, to deliver us from the folly of our passions, and to unite us to God, the true. LET's MAKE IT New C” 9.
Pagina 10
... true fountain of all good. The mighty change which Christianity aims at, then, is to put us into a new state, reform our whole natures, purify our souls and make them the inhabitants of heavenly and immortal bodies. (A Practical ...
... true fountain of all good. The mighty change which Christianity aims at, then, is to put us into a new state, reform our whole natures, purify our souls and make them the inhabitants of heavenly and immortal bodies. (A Practical ...
Pagina 17
... true for all of us that eternity will reveal how much greater good could have been accomplished if yet more careful ... true righteousness, effects true accomplishment here, and ensures happiness hereafter. PROBLEMS WITH PATHS In the ...
... true for all of us that eternity will reveal how much greater good could have been accomplished if yet more careful ... true righteousness, effects true accomplishment here, and ensures happiness hereafter. PROBLEMS WITH PATHS In the ...
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