God’s Gardeners
(This article was written for “The Record”, the magazine of the Free Church of Scotland, and was first published in March 2012)
“It is springtime, that time of year when gardeners get out their rakes and hoes to tend to their gardens with a vigour that the winter time denies them. The first few weeks are taken up with jobs such as repairing winter damage, planting new seeds and new cuttings and tending to them all to encourage them to grow. No two gardens look exactly alike, some seeds and cuttings take to their new environment better than others. Whether a garden succeeds or fails depends on varying factors including: the skill of the gardener tending the plants; the fertility of the soil; the amount of nutrients received – sun, water, plant food. Tending to a garden, whether it is a window box or an acre or more…
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