{"id":777,"date":"2009-09-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=777"},"modified":"2009-09-04T22:13:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T02:13:34","slug":"the-garden-september-4-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/the-garden-september-4-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Garden, September 4 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Green Garden Gate<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Down the street from us is the most beautiful garden full of every flower and plant you can imagine. \u00a0When you open the little green wooden gate your enter an oasis of scents that tickles your nose and visions that make colors come to life.\u00a0 We follow the brick\u00a0and stone\u00a0paths into and around bamboo and lazy susans.\u00a0 The children’s feet clippety clop\u00a0 across the little wooden arched bridge to the other side of the garden in search of a new discovery, a turtle, a frog, preying mantis or bumblebees.\u00a0 Always searching and wandering aimlessly you can hear the echo of laughter and calling to each other “Over here, look what I have found over here.”<\/p>\n

This precious garden is owned by the kindest woman.\u00a0 Her kids have all grown and she is now a grandma.\u00a0 Her garden is her baby, her source of relaxation and work wrapped into one.\u00a0 It is her place of peace and potential she imagines for it.\u00a0 She says she never had a plan for it.\u00a0 She just moves plants from one place to another and buys new ones.\u00a0 She has a pond full of goldfish and two swings that the neighborhood children sometimes sit and read books on.\u00a0 She has a little area set up to see tadpoles grow and a small\u00a0 turtle she found waiting in\u00a0a little box for all the children to visit.\u00a0\u00a0 She leaves books out for us to learn from.\u00a0 She is so open and welcoming.\u00a0 Just like the sign beside the gate that says welcome, she is sincere. We visit the garden whether she is there or not because we feel that welcome.\u00a0 The garden is a special place to my children, the children I babysit and myself.<\/p>\n

The garden is God’s creation growing wild yet tamed by a sweet woman who pulls the weeds and tends to it’s needs.\u00a0 The garden gives to all who choose to look and acknowledge it’s very existence.\u00a0 The garden waits for those who stumble through it to discover the little details we\u00a0miss as we run through our life from one activity to the next, wishing it was over to get to that next thing.\u00a0 The\u00a0garden offers peace and tranquility for all who open it’s little green gate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

We see God within the garden.\u00a0\u00a0He waits for us to run through\u00a0His creation, to breathe in His scents to\u00a0feel revived by\u00a0his most brilliant colors and\u00a0sites.\u00a0 God waits for us\u00a0just down the\u00a0street. Waiting for\u00a0us, welcoming us anytime to feel his peace and witness His Creation.\u00a0 He has given it to us to savor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So when will you open the little green gate step\u00a0inside and\u00a0breathe in\u00a0the scents and\u00a0savor His Creation that is\u00a0Nature?\u00a0 Will it be today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Down the street from us is the most beautiful garden full of every flower and plant you can imagine. \u00a0When you open the little green wooden gate your enter an oasis of scents that tickles your nose and visions that make colors come to life.\u00a0 We follow the brick\u00a0and stone\u00a0paths into and around bamboo and lazy susans.\u00a0 The children’s feet clippety clop\u00a0 across the little wooden arched bridge to the other side of the garden in search of a new discovery, a turtle, a frog, preying mantis or bumblebees.\u00a0 Always searching and wandering aimlessly you can hear the echo of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[191,42,43,131,192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}