Welcome to FredsGardenMusings! I love prayer, I love the Bible, I love nature and I love gardening. They all restore my soul! Yourdictionary.com defines musing as " a period of deep thought, meditation or reflection."
This blog will be an intersection, maybe sometimes a collision of those loves! I will share activities, pictures, thoughts and lessons from my garden, from nature in general and reflections from by prayers and meditation on God's word. Come with me as I enjoy God's creation and think out loud!
July 17, 2013
In my recent quest to grow in my prayer life, I recently started collecting what I call, Prayer Room music, it provides a good background for meditation, reflection and prayer time with the Lord, without a heavy beat but more instrumental and with fewer words if any. Such a song is Mitsy Edwards "Garden" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Owb_B9BO_c
Yesterday, this song ministered to me as I listened to the words:
.
Here are some of the lyrics:
"You
and Me Alone God, You and me alone. There a place within,
where no man can go, in the secret resevoir
of the soul. In your jealousy,
you created me as a garden enclosed for
you alone.
"I close my eyes and go to the sacred space inside a cathedral
within...
where you and I collide."
My love for the word, prompted me to ask the Lord for related scriptures and he took me to. John 15: 4-8:
" Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him,
the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered;
and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will,
and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified,
that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples." John 15: 5-8 KJV
That place of fellowship with God is called
"abiding" The goal of Jesus is
that we bear much fruit. Not just look pretty or stay green! Last week my
tomatoes looked great due to the rain. Yet, I was looking for fruit. First came
then flower buds, then the bees pollenated, then at last on yesterday, the first signs of
fruit! I saw my first tomatoes. On Monday I noticed that the vines, though
staked individually with bamboo stakes
were starting to lean forward under the weight of the quick growing vines and
the new cucumbers. I then had to come back with additional reinforcements. This time, made tent like stakes by bracing the original stakes, to hold up the growing tomatoes. Then I created a trealise by
connecting the stakes with strings. I dropped some of the strings from the top of each
stakes to "grab" the new vines which would eventually "lift them up" as as they shot out from the main vine
below.
Detached branches;;
Every year for some reason, my pepper plants lose their bottom leaves. Sometimes a falling pine
cone lops of a tomato branch or I accidentally break off a branch while pruning. Sadly, these broken branches, detached from the vine, can no
longer grow. They wither and die; so I gather them up in put them into the compost
bin.
Application Questions:
As I close my prayer times, these are the questions I am asking:
Where are there signs of new flower
buds and new fruit in my life?
Where do I need to see fruit?
Where have I detached from the vine
and have no life and need to be tossed in the compost bin?
Where does God want to prune in my life?
Are there areas that I assumed were productive but are now
dead? Ouch?
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