Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Friday, November 12, 2010

Month of Thanksgiving -- Blessing 14

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Branch Of Wisdom


Today I thank You, Lord, for color.  Some animals see in black and white, but you made us to see in color--the reds and oranges and yellows in a sunset, the sweet green grass, all the shades of a blue sky, the purples in the rainbow...

Now that autumn is fully upon us here in the Midwest, I appreciate color even more.  To my delight, as Thomas and I cleared out the dead brush from my front yard garden, I noted that even my blue oat grass glowed with autumn light as the sun hit that latening hour when dull, fading brown turns to molten shimmer.


As I cleared brush and leaves, I also discovered a few fading flowers on the beard tongue, hanging on until the hard frost arrives.


I love this little plant, which happily grows without much care.  It is especially colorful when it begins to bloom in early summer:  flowers appear, arrayed in bright pink, then with time turn to darker red, then purple, as they complete the blooming cycle.  At any given time, all of these colors are displayed and create a bright and colorful corner in my garden.


There will be color in heaven!

The material of the wall was jasper;
and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.
The foundation stones of the city wall
were adorned with every kind of precious stone...
...jasper...sapphire...chalcedony...emerald...
...sardonyx...sardius...chrysolite...beryl...
...topaz...chrysoprase...jacinth...amethyst...
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls;
each one of the gates was a single pearl.
And the street of the city was pure gold,
like transparent glass.
Revelation 21:18-21 nasb

Thank You, Lord, for colors!

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Back to life,
Christine

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Friday, September 3, 2010

Friday Farm Girls at Heart--My Life, The Lord's Garden

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At the end of summer, my thoughts run toward the vegetable gardens in my backyard.  Harvesting, canning, munching freshly pulled carrots.  But curiously, my thoughts are also turning to my flower gardens, much of which have been neglected this summer.

My front porch garden

Several years ago, after I had had surgery and was having a hard time recuperating, a dear friend almost single-handedly dug out my front porch garden (above).  She mapped out a color plan, then accompanied me to the nursery to pick out flowers.  Then she helped me plant.

Since then, my garden has grown, becoming a jungle at one point.  I have divided plants and transplanted others to different parts of my yard, and still it keeps growing.  This spring, I purchased a macro lens for my camera, and trotted out to my front porch garden to see its close-up version.


My eyes were amazed!  Leaf edges, raindrops, bugs, individual unopened buds.  Little things I never paid attention to, or even could pay attention to because they were so small.


My garden is a picture of what the Lord is doing in my life.  Sometimes, I fight against the little things, not realizing that God has a bigger plan that I don't yet see.  And sometimes, I'm concentrating so single-mindedly on the big-picture vision He has for me, that I don't see the beautiful details He is weaving into my life.

Each individual bud, each individual flower, woven into one beautiful garden.  God the Designer, the Planter, the Transplanter, the Grower, the Harvester.

Back to life,
Christine

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Monday, June 7, 2010

Grounds of Naper Settlement

I've attended church on these grounds for the past five years, but never really noticed our surroundings.  Well, until now, when we've reached the probability that we will be moving to a larger location--a government school building.  The building really doesn't matter.  But, it made me realize how blessed I've been to be surrounded by beauty each Sunday morning.

Bleeding heart


Pink rose


Buttercup (just guessing)


What is this one?  :)


Bug on rose


Side view of leaf

Surely God's beauty surrounds me each week, if I just stop and look.  What an amazing Creator I serve!