One Who Plants A Garden Plants Happiness

Hope Gardeners would love to have you join us each Friday morning at 8:30 for devotions, planting, weeding and snacks. The first gathering will be April 13th. All are welcome. Come when you can. For more information, contact Barb Ostby at 890-4534 or rbostby@aol.com.

Garden Meditations
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” – Samuel Tayler Coleridge
Let us give thanks for a bounty of people. For children who are our second planting, and though they grow like weeds and the wind too soon blows them away, may they forgive us our cultivation and fondly remember where their roots are.

Let us give thanks.
For generous friends, with hearts–and smiles–as bright as their blossoms;
For feisty friends, as tart as apples;
For continuous friends, who, like scallions and cucumbers, keep reminding us that we’ve had them;
For crotchety friends, sour as rhubarb and as indestructible;
For handsome friends, who are as gorgeous as eggplants and as elegant as a row of corn, and the others as plain as potatoes and so good for you;
For funny friends, who are as silly as brussel sprouts and as amusing as Jerusalem artichokes;
And serious friends, as pretentious as cabbages, as subtle as summer squash, as persistent as parsley, as delightful as dill, as endless as zucchini and who, like parsnips, can be counted on to see you through the winter;
For old friends, nodding like sunflowers in the evening time and young friends coming on fast as radishes;
For loving friends, who wind around us like tendrils and hold us, despite our blights, wilts and witherings;
And finally, for those friends now gone, like gardens that have been harvested, but who fed us in their time that we might have life thereafter. For all these, we give thanks.
-From Chicken Soup for the Gardener’s Soul