Thinking of the garden in defining ourselves and our theology.
And I am glad you are not into the spider smashing business, I get so upset when
I think of garden orb weavers being killed, yeah I've walked through many a sticky web only to worry where the heck is the spider, but they are harmless and very very unlikely to bite you, they are scaredy cats!
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Think of a garden, with the cancer as a weed and all the interacting cells and systems that surround it as the soil.»
Kind of hard to
think of gardening and swimming already.
We often
think of gardening as waiting, but mostly that's about waiting for plants to grow rather than waiting for us to know....
It used to be that when
we thought of the garden stool we thought of, well... the garden, and using this versatile piece outside only.
I know that many of you are pretty much fed up at this point that old man winter is still rearing his white head and perhaps it's early for
thoughts of gardening.
It had never occurred to me to grow veggies before; I always
thought of my garden as just a «flower garden».
Perhaps it's the fact that
we think of gardens as mostly daytime spaces.
Not exact matches
In my spare time, I like to
garden, and I often
think of a company like a
garden.
While he's vegan, likes to
garden, and drives a battered Prius, he doesn't
think of himself as an environmentalist, really, or a cycling advocate.
A growing number
of businesses, like Target, Sephora, Bath and Body Works, and Olive
Garden deliver coupons via mobile devices in an effort to appeal to consumers, many
of whom would never
think of clipping or carrying coupons.
Gardening might not be the first place you'd
think to look for productivity metaphors, but Hertling has unearthed a great one from the wisdom
of farmers.
The race between automation and human work is won by automation, and as long as we need fiat currency to pay the rent / mortgage, humans will fall out
of the system in droves as this shift takes place... The safe zones are services that require local human effort (
gardening, painting, babysitting), distant human effort (editing, coaching, coordinating), and high - level
thinking / relationship building.
«We're actually
thinking of a sixth and that would be the Space Force,» the president told assembled guests in the Rose
Garden, after ticking off the names
of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard.
We're not anticipating any sort
of first half to second half hockey stick for Olive
Garden we
think in the first half, the promotions are going to be meaningfully stronger than they were last year.
However, since Central
Garden & Pet's (CENTA, CENT) stock price declined by almost 25 % after investors reacted with vigor to «disappointing results», we
thought we would provide a brief overview
of what we
think were the important aspects
of the company's results.
If anything, any
thinking person who reads the Holy Bible, will come to the conclusion that the best version
of marriage is the original one that God created in the
Garden of Eden, one man has one wife.
Charon Mangino posted a photo
of flowers from her
garden, writing, «I go into my
garden... I weed, and with each weed I pray and release my own negative
thoughts, beliefs and demons.
I have posted some
thoughts before on the creation narrative, the
garden of eden, and the flood.
I
think Genesis actually makes some reference to people already outside
of the
Garden when Adam and Eve were ousted.
Have you ever
thought that perhaps God provided that level
of order as far back Genesis in the
garden of Eden.
So you
think God plopped man in the
Garden of Eden?
It's taken from Borges's story «The
Garden of Forking Paths»: «I
thought of a maze
of mazes,
of a sinuous, ever growing maze which would take in both past and future and would somehow involve the stars.»
I
think of one
of Jesus's last prayers (the one in the
garden of Gethsemane... not for - now opening the can
of worms regarding «whether He actually prayed it»).
Man and women were not made in the
Garden of Eden period, facts are facts just like the world is not round unlike what christians use to
think back then.
For most
of my life I
thought that the punishment that mankind and the rest
of creation suffered for Adam and Eve's one act
of disobedience in the
garden seemed incredibly harsh.
One
thinks of Theresa with her comparison
of the life
of prayer to a medieval castle,
of John
of the Cross with his lovely story
of the lover in the
garden of cypresses, and
of Meister Eckhart (the most abstract
of them all) with his talk about a spark
of deity that seems to become the very self
of the person praying.
Mormons connect the atonement more with the
Garden of Gethsemane than with the cross, since they
think that is where his greatest agony took place (Luke 22:44).
Lots
of people
think it happened in Genesis 3:20 - 21 when God gave tunics
of skin to Adam and Eve before He kicked them out
of the
Garden of Eden.
However, the issue
of «evidence» and «proof» is nowhere near as simple nor as cut - and - dried as your
garden variety atheist
thinks it is.
One can immediately
think of the Western Wall for the Jews, the Church
of the Holy Sepulcher or the
Garden Tomb for Christians, or the Dome
of the Rock and al - Aqsa mosque for Islam.
Who do you
think created the tree in the
garden and the serpent and the sin nature
of Adam and Eve and put them all together and said, «Don't!»
Just
think, the earth might have been the
garden of eden... and we just soiled our own nest.
Say Mormonism... they
think the
garden of Eden is in America.
I would just point out in passing that the analysis so far would suggest that the ordinary,
garden - variety notion
of a miracle does not seem to have any meaning in the context
of a theological version
of process
thought.
Reflecting on her prayer not being answered she said: «I
think about Jesus in the
garden in Gethsemane and he's praying, sweating drops
of blood in earnest praying out to God the father, giving him his desires... but your will be done.
They're engaged in cleaning up their act, and I
think we need to be with them as Christians in doing what God told us to do: take care
of his
garden.
Millard would love to have you in my virtual living room called fb =) but again about the digging, I was
gardening in a space full
of weed roots, I tired and
thought maybe I should just plant anyway.....
After all, does Germany plan to build a beer
garden two blocks from Auschwitz - the Naszis were at fault for Auschwitz, not the Germans, certainly there are fewer Naszis left than al quaeda - No, the Germans would never
think of doing something so offensive
Pagitt seems to
think that Adam and Eve's sin in the
Garden of Eden did not change the basic makeup
of humanity, but rather ruptured our relationship with God and with one another.
I
thought of how I am often too busy, so busy, how there is so much to do in a family
of six with work and life and school and ministry, and I
thought that I was actually really glad to be sitting here, uncomfortably, in this chair with my feet in the kiddie pool and my husband behind me in the
garden pulling beans.
In those words, and the words
of many others, I
think we can see the outline
of an ethic that avoids self - indulgence yet does not deny the physical facts
of a planet with 6 billion people who may soon nearly double their numbers — a planet that grows hotter, stormier and less stable by the day, a planet where huge swaths
of God's creation are being wiped out by the one species told to tend this particular
garden.
Think of Jesus in the
Garden of Gethsemane, when he prayed, «Not my will but thine be done.»
In this regard,
thought had traveled a long way from the legend
of the
Garden of Eden, according to which trouble first entered the world as penalty.
Christians, if you don't treat your book with any more respect than an edition
of home and
garden magazine, how do you
think this looks to people outside
of the faith.
You would
think that Genesis would have addressed all
of this in the
Garden of Eden and subsequenlty after Noah's flood.
Not only are we not allowed to
think for ourselves, we've been fooled into believing that we CA N'T
think for ourselves, which is why we NEED a pastor to lead us (sounds like the kind
of deception the serpent used in the
Garden).
As a Bible - based Christian, I
think the Americans are finally getting the Supreme Court question right: this is about impartiality
of blessings; it is not about God's plan shown in the
Garden of Eden.
So he is out pacing around in the
garden trying to
think through all
of this, trying to figure out what to do.