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The Spiritual Gardener is the recipient of the New York City Big Book Award - home and garden category.In this charming and elegant guide, quotations from the Torah, the Midrash, and the Chasidic Masters blend seamlessly with tips for growing your garden along with observations about dealing with weeds, lawn envy, damn wabbits, the bitterness of horseradish, and the sweetness of raspberry jam. Gorgeously illustrated by artist Abigail Drapkin, The Spiritual Gardener is a gift with many seeds of joy and wisdom.Andy Becker is a writer, avid gardener, and lifetime learner living in Gig Harbor, Washington with his wife Donna Fisher. During his early years of gardening, he was often frustrated by rocky soil, hills, and too many surrounding trees, slugs, and deer. Despite these challenges Andy has never failed to grow flowers and vegetables every spring and summer. His garden currently includes 8 raised beds, a 30-yard vegetable bed, and 40-yard stretch of raspberry beds. "Digging in the earth is holy work. Enjoy this wonderful book and give as a gift to like-minded friends and family members. Highly recommended."- Rabbi J.L. Mirel, author of Stepping Stones to Jewish Spiritual Living "With wry humor, earthy spirituality, and practical advice, lawyer and gardener Becker tells the story of his garden and entreats readers to plant, tend, harvest, and share their own soil in this fine debut."- Publishers Weekly
The Spiritual Gardener's Handbook uses the garden as a set of visualization tools and techniques for goal-achievement, personal betterment and spiritual development. You will sow seeds of loving words, give them water and sunshine with intentional thoughts and actions, weed out negativity, and then harvest a crop of physical and spiritual abundance. This book is going to teach you one very important concept that will change your life: What you cultivate in your heart determines what you experience, and with the right seeds, you can harvest a physical, emotional and spiritual heaven on earth. The techniques are simple and easy to remember, but they employ deep universal principles which will feel so natural, they will easily become part of your daily routine. Nurturing a Spiritual Garden will bring a blissful, joyous essence into your regular practices, with a grounding and foundational effect. This life is of your making. You have created it. It has been grown from the seeds that you have sown. You do have a choice. You can make a difference. You can change this life permanently for the better. When weeds of negativity take root in your heart, the good things in your life diminish. And likewise, when you plant seeds of joy and prosperity in your heart, these things manifest themselves in your "real" life, and in the lives of those around you. Wouldn't it be wonderful if, by cultivating this garden in your heart, you could create the profound spiritual experience felt by those in the direct presence of Jesus, or Buddha, or Mohammad or Lao Tzu? You can! When you plant a garden, you are creating a sacred place in the earth. And so, when you cultivate the garden within your heart, you are creating a place for God to always occupy within the core of your being. Cultivating a Spiritual Garden in your heart literally takes you to the roots of human happiness and fulfillment. This book will show you how.
"Experiencing visible results from the earth is immensely gratifying in the fragmentation of today's world…. This retreat, Your Spiritual Garden: Tending to the Presence of God, is designed to allow you, the retreatant, to discover the life-giving work that can go into daily living for six months or six years when you grow into a deeper relationship with the Master Gardener, God."—from the Introduction The Old and New Testaments are rich with garden imagery—it is present in creation, the passion, the resurrection and many parts in between. In our daily lives gardens offer us beauty and respite in the hectic and chaotic world around us. Pegge Bernecker's Your Spiritual Garden: Tending to the Presence of God is a six-week retreat designed to release the inner gardener in all of us. Using Scripture, prayers, meditation, physical and communal activity, as well as participation in the Eucharist, Bernecker teaches us to tend our spiritual garden and ultimately cultivate our relationship with our "Master Gardener."
Tending the Garden is a unique perspective and approach nurturing of Christian spirituality using the garden and gardening as a metaphor. Marshall and Julie Welch combine their experience and expertise in spiritual formation and gardening as an invitation to tending to one's spirituality. Whether an experienced or novice gardener, the reader will gain insight not only into the art of gardening, but Christian spirituality as well. Spirituality is presented as a relational way to grow compassion and sensitivity to self, others, the environment, and to God. The book can be read individually or as a small book club group. Guidelines for facilitating a small group discussion are presented in the introduction. Part I consists of 14 short, engaging chapters, with titles such as "Weeding: Spiritual Discernment," "Manure Happens: Desolation and Consolation," and "Thank You Very Mulch: Our Spiritual Security Blanket." The narrative is written in a very conversational voice. Each chapter begins with scripture and an inspirational quote and concludes with a series of reflection questions as well as tips on how to "cultivate" one's spirituality. The "tips" are easy-to-do activities that are grounded in a long tradition of spiritual exercises presented in a contemporary context. In Part II, the authors also use their experience as co-coordinators of a community garden in their own church congregation to present step-by-step suggestions on how other communities of faith can start and maintain their own garden. Church gardens are introduced as a unique form of spiritual formation through a sense of community with other gardeners and a form of mission and ministry.
Explores the creation of a garden sanctuary with practical advice on plant selection, color, creating pathways and gates, and sharing the space with wildlife.
Spiritual Gardening is a guide to help you grow in your Christian life. From a seed, "beginning Christian," to a fruitful plant, "mature Christian," this book will carry you through the step by step process of spiritual gardening your life in Jesus Christ. This book is filled with gospel principles that the reader can apply to his or her personal life. Spiritual Gardening is a definite must read.
Lessons From The Master Gardener is a parallel of botanical and Biblical principles that enhance the application of scripture in a believer's life. The nine chapters start with soil preparation and progress through harvesting the crop. Each chapter springboards from a scriptural passage related to agricultural process. A divine picture is drawn of the relationship between the physical world in which we live and the spiritual realities we need to know in order to live a victorious life.
This gorgeously illustrated gardening book provides practical gardening tips and spiritual insights. Quotations from the Torah, the Midrash, and the Chasidic Masters blend seamlessly with the author's observations about dealing with Weeds, Lawn Envy, Damn Wabbits, the bitterness of Horseradish, and the sweetness of Raspberry Jam.