I Come to the Garden...

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2010

    I'll have to post a picture later, I don't have my picture harddrive atached rigth now.

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  • KAJDerby
    KAJDerby Member Posts: 310
    edited February 2010

    A picture from the my garden in the Azores.  This was a small blossom.  The other ones you see are in the middle of their growing.

     

    This was my mother's very favorites.  When I sing it I think of her looking down from Heaven with a smile on her face!

    O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,
    Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;
    I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
    Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

    When through the woods, and forest glades I wander,
    And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees.
    When I look down, from lofty mountain grandeur
    And see the brook, and feel the gentle breeze.

    And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing;
    Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;
    That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing,
    He bled and died to take away my sin.

    When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation,
    And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart.
    Then I shall bow, in humble adoration,
    And then proclaim: "My God, how great Thou art!"

    Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
    How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
    Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
    How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
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  • deborye
    deborye Member Posts: 7,002
    edited February 2010

    Pickity Place Mason NH.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2010

    Grace, I also love that hymn.  I posted it as the second hymn on this thread because it is so fitting when looking at these beautiful pictures of things He created.  Your garden in the Azores must have been beautiful!

    Do you have a garden in Okinawa?  Matt has only sent pictures of his car, and of the coast/beach.  But he says it is the most beautiful place.

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  • KAJDerby
    KAJDerby Member Posts: 310
    edited February 2010

    Can I plead chemo brain for that one??????  DUH!!!!!!!!!!

    I have a beautiful front yard and a long distance view of the Pacific Ocean!  It is beautiful!  Praying for Matt on his trip this next weekend.

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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited February 2010

    Meece....Was thinking of you today.

    I hope everything went smoothly and you were able to have all your appointments.

    Sheila♥

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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 10,007
    edited February 2010

    Meece...... Hollyhocks from last summer's adventures.

    I too have been sending you good vibes for your journey today.

    xx00xx00xx00xx

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited February 2010

    I LOVE Hollyhocks!  Thanks for sharing that one Faith.

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  • deborye
    deborye Member Posts: 7,002
    edited February 2010

    I have peach colored HollyHocks I love them, I wish the Japanese Beetles didn't like them, little buggers.

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  • deborye
    deborye Member Posts: 7,002
    edited February 2010
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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited February 2010

    Deb. beautiful.  Haven't seen much of you lately on the threads I frequent-everything OK?

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2010

    Hollyhocks = grandma.  I loved going out in her yard and collecting seeds.  I might just plant some thisyear since my back yard is a work in progress and anything goes until weget the pond done and grass in.

    I got through my scheduled appointments and then one!  They squeezed me in for my diagnostic mammo!  No more tests this time around, only Dr. follow-ups.  I hope I don't hear from her until I see her on the 11th.  No news is good news!

    Grace, you can plead chemmo-brain whenever you'd like.  I never quite recovered from it and it is frustrating.  Onc told me she could send me to a nuerolgist, but I will just deal with it.

    Prayer request:  As Grace mentioned, my son Matt will be traveling from Okinawa this coming weekend.  He is heading to a military hospital in Oahu for testing.  It could make or break his military career and he truly wants to stay in.  Please pray that God's will be done, and if it is His will, that He will guide the physician's hands and they will guide him to healing.  Thank you!

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  • kcl65
    kcl65 Member Posts: 1,156
    edited February 2010

    I love all your pictures and unfortunately I am lame and don't know how to upload from iphoto onto this. But here is a hymn I remember from childhood.

    Refrain

    All things bright and beautiful,
    All creatures great and small,
    All things wise and wonderful:
    The Lord God made them all.

    Each little flower that opens,
    Each little bird that sings,
    He made their glowing colors,
    He made their tiny wings.

    Refrain

    The purple headed mountains,
    The river running by,
    The sunset and the morning
    That brightens up the sky.

    Refrain

    The cold wind in the winter,
    The pleasant summer sun,
    The ripe fruits in the garden,
    He made them every one.

    Refrain

    The tall trees in the greenwood,
    The meadows where we play,
    The rushes by the water,
    To gather every day.

    Refrain

    He gave us eyes to see them,
    And lips that we might tell
    How great is God Almighty,
    Who has made all things well.

    Refrain

     

    Downloaded from http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/a/l/allthing.htm

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  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited February 2010

    right here Faith...

    Oh God our Help in Ages Past

    Our God, our help in ages past,
    Our hope for years to come,
    Our shelter from the stormy blast,
    And our eternal home.

    Under the shadow of Thy throne
    Thy saints have dwelt secure;
    Sufficient is Thine arm alone,
    And our defense is sure.

    Before the hills in order stood,
    Or earth received her frame,
    From everlasting Thou art God,
    To endless years the same.

    Thy Word commands our flesh to dust,
    "Return, ye sons of men:"
    All nations rose from earth at first,
    And turn to earth again.

    A thousand ages in Thy sight
    Are like an evening gone;
    Short as the watch that ends the night
    Before the rising sun.

    The busy tribes of flesh and blood,
    With all their lives and cares,
    Are carried downwards by the flood,
    And lost in following years.

    Time, like an ever rolling stream,
    Bears all its sons away;
    They fly, forgotten, as a dream
    Dies at the opening day.

    Like flowery fields the nations stand
    Pleased with the morning light;
    The flowers beneath the mower's hand
    Lie withering ere ‘tis night.

    Our God, our help in ages past,
    Our hope for years to come,
    Be Thou our guard while troubles last,
    And our eternal home.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2010

    Oh, JO, welcome!  I love that hymn!  I love to hear the men's deep vioces echo "It is Well" 

    I will add a pic for you.River Pictures, Images and Photos

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2010

    kcl, I will find a picture for your hymn as well.  My break is over though.  A bit later.

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2010

    How about this one for kcl?

    the world Pictures, Images and Photos

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2010

    Fuzzy caterpillar Pictures, Images and Photos

    Fuzzy little caterpillar,

    Climbing up a tree,

    He wiggled once, he wiggled twice,

    He wiggled right at me.

    I put him in a box,

    Now don't you move I said.

    But when I opened up the box,

    It was a butterfly instead.

    Now, I could never make one.

    No matter how I try,

    'Cuz only God in Heaven,

    Can make a butterfly!"

    Monarch butterfly Pictures, Images and Photos"

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited February 2010

    JO, I'd love to hear the story behind your hymn, it's beautiful!

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  • KAJDerby
    KAJDerby Member Posts: 310
    edited February 2010

    Jo- I love that song.

    Barbe - the song was written by a man named Spafford.  His family was to make a trip to England and at the last minute he couldn't travel with them.  His wife and daughters left alone and he would later join them.  The ship sunk on its journey.  He received a cable from his wife, "Safe.  Alone."  A little while later as he traveled over the spot where the ship sank, he wrote "It Is Well With My Soul".  Very moving story and song for me.

    Meese-LOVED the caterpillar and butterfly!  Right now I feel like God is changing me so much, but someday I'm going to be a butterfly!

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited February 2010

    How did he receive a cable from his wife if the ship sank?

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2010

    Grace, I hope you slept well. 

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2010
    barbe, his wife was one of the survivors, "alone" meant that his four daughters did not survive.
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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 10,007
    edited February 2010

    I've written at length about the butterfly picture that I 'captured' and have kept as my avatar around here. I realize that I don't know where that writing is any more. LOL. And I think that most of you are 'new' enough to me, that you probably weren't around when I wrote it anyhow.....

    To make a long story short I took a bike ride several summers ago and was captivated by the glorious flowers outside of a B&B. I was brand new to cameras/photography and was talking to myself about making certain that the sun was behind me, and switch the camera to close up foliage mode and -- just as I was about to click to take the picture, the monarch landed on my 'zoomed-in' spot. Seriously.

    I ended up taking 11 pictures of it as it walked around the center of the unique sunflower.

    It was THE experience that hooked me on wanting to learn more about photography.

    Thinking back on how those two minutes have changed my life is amazing. It was as though heaven had orchestrated the entire serendipitous moment. It made the 18 mile ride back home, click by in the blink of an eye.

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  • deborye
    deborye Member Posts: 7,002
    edited February 2010

    eph3, thanks for asking, I am doing just fine.  I frequent the topic "Thinking Outloud".  During the day I work and we are not allowed to chat online, although I do peep in.

    How R U doing?

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  • deborye
    deborye Member Posts: 7,002
    edited February 2010

    I used to have a garden filled with all sorts of different types of sunflowers, faith I love yours the best.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited February 2010

    Thanks for the story...it IS very moving....it is well with my soul.

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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited February 2010

    Transparent Butterfly

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited February 2010

    Wow, I have never seen one of those before!  Absolutely stunning!

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  • KAJDerby
    KAJDerby Member Posts: 310
    edited February 2010

    faithandfifty - I have always LOVED your avatar and now I have the story to go with it.  Beautiful!!!!

    seyla-what a gorgeous butterfly!  The Lord's handiwork is awesome!

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