I hope everyone had a beautiful Easter weekend and experienced the true joy of a resurrected Christ. I had a wonderful Easter, full of gardening, a somber Good Friday service, blessed times with lots of family, and an exciting Sunday morning celebration. I love Easter, when I really stop and focus on the sacrifice of Christ Jesus for my sins.
Today is also Earth Day, where we remember to be grateful for God's creation and be good stewards. I'm excited to be gardening again this Spring. Gardening is not just a hobby, but can be a restorative and spiritual process as well. In being close to the earth, nurturing growth, and watching new life form, our spirits are nurtured as well. I also feel a closeness to God when I'm fulfilling the call He first placed on Adam to take care of the Earth and utilize its resources. Right now, my garden looks like a lot of dirt, but soon I will have spinach and peppers and mint and more! Makes me think of the transformative process Christ does in us.
"Could a garden come up from this ground at all?" This song, Beautiful Things, by Gungor also makes me think about God turns us from dirty messes to His beautiful creations. I love, love, love it.
I have also realized these past few weeks that blogging is hard! This is a discipline I have not yet mastered, so while I would love to be a regular blogger, I keep falling off the blogging wagon. I'm on it again and trying to schedule some posts ahead of time to help me keep up. To all my blogger friends out there, what tricks and tips have you found to keep yourself posting often?
You know I started a blog a few years ago...I think I made about 3 or 4 posts. whoops:) I've been thinking lately about jumping back on the blog-wagon but we'll see. Clearly I don't do so well at upkeep. So basically I have no pointers for you. Sorry:)
ReplyDeleteAlso I wish you lived closer so I could come snag some mint from your garden to make mojitos for us. I can't wait til I can have a garden next summer!
I don't remember the blog!!! Blog again! We can be blogging buddies :) Also, I will bring mint for mojitos to you sometime!
ReplyDeleteTry to pick at least one day to commit to a week with a theme. For me it's workout Wednesday. If I at least get that in I feel petty accomplished ��
ReplyDeletehaha I don't know if I ever shared my blog. I'll have to see if I can find it or should just start another. But I would love to be blogging buddies with you! Maybe you can help me get it up and running next weekend if I haven't already. We should make mint mojitos at the beach!
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