God’s Garden

I am actually writing this column a couple of weeks before you will read it, but I am enjoying watching something going on right outside of my window.  There are bees buzzing around flowers, going from one to the other.  They are feeding themselves, but we also know that they are pollinating the flowers. It is a fascinating thing to observe.

            At my home we have both a vegetable garden and several flower beds.  There are squash and okra, tomatoes and peppers, along with azaleas, gardenias, agapanthus, and other flowers for which I do not even know the name.  In addition, there are several citrus and dogwood trees. They are beautiful to see, and some produce delicious food.  

            I started working in a garden at the age of nine. We moved out to the country, and my dad planted a garden every year. Oh, how I would complain about picking and breaking green beans, shelling butterbeans and shucking corn.  And here I am, more than fifty years later, and I am doing it to myself.  Why?

            Well, I enjoy the taste of a homegrown tomato, for one thing. But I also love to watch God at work.  I am certainly aware of the scientific processes that take place as a seed is germinated. But what I know is that the Lord created this process.  The psalmist wrote, “The heavens declare the glory of God.”  Indeed, as I look around at the creation He made, I am in awe at the goodness and the power of God. “The whole earth is full of His glory.”  He made it all for you and me. What a good God He is!