A Weed is but a Flower Out of Place
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A Weed is but a Flower Out of Place

“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” Genesis 2:15 Yo howdy All Y’all! If you’re reading, we each woke up this morning! Again! Fearless thru the Valley of the Shadow of death. “This is the day Creation hath made, let...

Sprouting Good Things
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Sprouting Good Things

Yo howdy All Y’all! It is a beautiful day! We are in the season of Lent, of preparing for Easter, preparing for Spring. Our gardens are a testament, affirmation, demonstration and metaphor of the Resurrection. “In faith: unity; in opinion: liberty; In all things: Love.” As Disciples of Christ, we each discern what the Resurrection...

A Little Bit of Country
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A Little Bit of Country

Yo howdy All Y’all. It is a beautiful day. Our garden is a funny place, encompassing all four sides of the half-block pasture embracing our church. Our “little country church in a hilltop field of lantana and sunflowers”. Funny to find that in downtown Austin. Nestled as it is between a parking garage, County and...

Sharing Sunflowers
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Sharing Sunflowers

Sunflowers. El girasol in Spanish; in Lipan Apache, indigenous to our area: Sheine lende. Yo howdy, we have an abundance of sunflowers once again – cultivated, corralled by curbs and cultivated where color and space called. We have entered a time when many are beginning again to celebrate our journey towards a more perfect union....

Gardening with God
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Gardening with God

Yo howdy All y’all – It is always a beautiful day to be in this garden of life, even on – and perhaps especially – the days of rain. “Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness...

Broken Branches
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Broken Branches

Yo howdy All y’all! This is the day Creation hath made, let us rejoice in it! “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God… This is the first and great commandment. And thesecond is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”(Matthew 22; 34-39 KJV) Days and nights of freezing...