Home is where you start from: A Family garden project

Friday, March 26, 2010

A Family garden project

Gardening with kids is an exciting thing. So much to look forward to, so much to plan, so much dirt!

Gardening with my children is a journey of optimistical planning. Here begins the planning and hopeful visions of a fruitful harvest.

A lesson on sowing now and reaping later; on planning, care and steadfastness.

Here are the lessons lived out for us, before our very eyes;

"Slow and Steady finishes the race" -Aesop's fable

and

"Behold, the sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell beside the way, and the birds came and devoured it. And other seed fell on the rocky place, where it did not have much earth, and immediately it sprang up because it had not depth of earth." -Mark 4:2-5

and this living lesson-picture:

"Catch the foxes for us, The little foxes, That ruin the vineyards While our vineyards are in blossom." -Song of Songs 2:15

a lesson to my children to be aware of the peculiarities, habits, and introspections (teen angst, anyone??) - the little foxes, that ruin the bright living out of Christ in the Churches and in ourselves.

why here's one of those little foxes, er- hens- now...looking for a way back into the garden...

Favorite gardening with children books at our house:

Learn and Play In the Garden by Meg Herd
DK First Garden Activity book
Linnea's Almanac by Cristina Bjork

How about you, are you planning a garden this year?

Labels: devotional, family, garden

posted at 7:00 AM
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4 Comments:

At 9:49 AM, Lizzie said...: "Gardening with my children is a journey of optimistical planning"

Indeed it is, what a delightful way to describe it. :)
At 10:49 PM, S.I.F. said...: Ha! I am so lacking in a green thumb! I wish someone had taught me how to garden when I was young enought hat some of it might have sunk in!
At 1:02 PM, Anonymous said...: How we love to get our hands dirty around here!! :) We are adding items to our garden this year to have a "salsa garden"! Thanks so much for the inspiration and resource suggestions.
At 8:26 PM, Urban Mom said...: I love the salsa garden idea! We have no room for gardening, living in the city and renting. But we planted a few flower seeds in a couple of flower pots. The "mixed flowers" are going like gangbusters. The lavendar, not so much. Maybe if things take off, the landlord will yield a patch of ground for us to transfer them (we live in a 2-flat with the landlord upstairs). I think he would if I told him it was for Science class.

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