In the Garden

Our new backyard summer garden and my favorite landscaper: my husband.

As much as many of us admire beautiful gardens, we must remember that not everything in the garden is good or beneficial.

 For example, this is our Rose bush:

And this Japanese Lady Beetle will destroy our roses unless we destroy it and her kind first.








And, while I think bunnies are cute, they don't belong in our garden, either. This one, fortunately, was in the neighbor's yard:

Not every wildflower is a weed. Clover is beneficial and attracts bees, as does the wild violet and dandelion: 

But left untended all will eventually overrun the yard and gardens, choking out every other flower or herb we plant. Bees are both beneficial and dangerous; dangerous because of the venom in their stingers, which could either leave welts when stung, or cause a person to go into anaphylactic shock if severely allergic. 

Worry not about the storms in your garden: every planting needs rain. 

Otherwise, we all, like our gardens, would just dry up and blow away like chaff at the first whisper of wind. Can't have that now, can we? 

In the Bible the garden is where we could always find Jesus. He prayed in gardens. He was buried in a garden tomb. He was in the garden when Mary arrived with His burial spices, only to find Jesus alive! And walking in the garden! 

In the garden with Jesus is a good place to be.