I Come To The Garden Alone...

My desire was to create a photograph to pair with

one of my favorite old hymns, "In The Garden".

This is such a beautiful song that has definitely weathered the test of time helping us to refocus...drawing us back to nature and the 'garden' where all 'life' began at the creation of man and 'New Life' began at the resurrection of Jesus Christ...

I know for myself that I can get so worried, allowing myself to become overwhelmed with all the problems and circumstances of everyday life that I find I need to take frequent visits to the garden where I find refreshment for my spirit and peace for my heart, my soul and my mind...as a visit with our Savior will inevitably do. 

I'd like to write out the words to this beautiful song written

by C. Austin Miles in 1912.

"In The Garden"

I come to the garden alone

While the dew is still on the roses

And the voice I hear falling on my ear

The Son of God discloses.

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,

And He tells me I am His own;

And the joy we share as we tarry there,

None other has ever known.

He speaks, and the sound of His voice,

Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,

And the melody that He gave to me

Within my heart is ringing.

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,

And He tells me I am His own;

And the joy we share as we tarry there,

None other has ever known.

I’d stay in the garden with Him

Though the night around me be falling,

But He bids me go; through the voice of woe

His voice to me is calling.

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,

And He tells me I am His own;

And the joy we share as we tarry there,

None other has ever known.

All Thy Waves & Thy Billows Are Gone Over Me

I know this is so much different from my last

post, but when my soul is overwhelmed...

Lead me to the Rock that is higher than I.

"As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?  My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you....Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and your billows have swept over me. 
By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?"
My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God."
Psalms 42 (NIV)

9,757

Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty-Seven.

What do these numbers mean?

That is how many days (counting today & revising it

for the 7 leap years since 1983) that I have

been married. It's been over half of my life,

but then, getting married at just 19 gives us even more

years to spend together...and that makes me happy!

It will be 27 years this fall...and I love him more each

and every single day!

It is truly a blessing when you fall in love

with your best friend for the rest of your life!