One of the joys of gardening is dreaming about how things
will look in the fullness of time. We can imagine and plan, and even draw or
make collages, of how things might look in a space but we can’t know until
things grow. So much of gardening is not in our hands. Some gardeners find this
frustrating, but most, particularly when they’ve been gardening for a few years,
revel in the happy accidents of nature. When we leave things to nature we are
of course, leaving them to God. Isn’t this how we work alongside God so much of
the time? God in his grace asks us to be his hands and feet on earth. We have a
responsibility to do our best for God but we also have an infinitely powerful
God working alongside us.
