Gardens from the Holy Spirit

	Eden
	Carol
	Cindy
	Richard
	Max
	Janet
	Sonja
	Jill
	Unborn Child
	More to Come

The gardens are placed so you can start in Eden and continue to each successive page by clicking a Next button. Or you may click any garden link on the left to visit a particular garden. Gardens will be added as the Holy Spirit directs. Timing and content are up to Him.

One night while praying for a friend, I was given the Garden concept and believed I was to render that for her, another friend was next... and so it began. God led me to do this site and placed on my heart the concepts below and gave me the poetry and art with interpretations. See important note on the art at the bottom of the page.

	Ralph
	Rhonda
	Naomi
	JoAnn
	Les
	Nan
	Iona - not done
	More to Come

If you've ever had a garden or even kept a house plant, you know that there's a certain amount of work involved. Plants need tending. They need water and nourishment. Without care, gardens will soon become unsightly weed patches, full of thorns, crawling with ravenous insects.

Just as Adam and Eve were given the honor of caring for the garden of Eden, we are responsible for keeping our spirit gardens well kept and ever growing. Spiritual gardens need the fertilizer of God's Word, and they will soon parch without that Living Water only God can give. They require the Light of the Son, and constant weeding must be done so their beauty will shine forth in our lives.

How's your Spirit garden doing these days? Have you let it be watered recently or allowed the Son Light to shine on it? When was the last time you fertilized it? Or did a bit of weeding? Ask the Master Gardener to help. He'll show you what to do and lead you as you lean on Him

Scripture sometimes refers to Old Testament sacrifices and the prayers of New Testament saints as a sweet smelling aroma wafting up to the throne of God, pleasing Him, giving Him joy. I love that! When our spiritual gardens are well tended and in full bloom, I picture the perfume of each flower ascending on high to the delight of not only the hosts of heaven, but the very King of Kings!

Ah, the purity and innocence of the honeysuckle, the passionate commitment of the magnolia, the dedicated service of the clover... and oh yes, the willing witness of the rose which fashions itself after the Rose of Sharon, Christ Himself!

One of my favorite things about a garden is how the lovely scent of each type of flower blends with all the others as they ebb and flow together to form a delicate and delightful aroma like no other. This amazing bouquet so tantalizes the senses that we can scarce define the joy of it. Thus it is so for the Lord when believers meet in fellowship and worship, when the priceless scent of one Spirit garden interweaves with others in joyful unity and agape love... can there be a sweeter smelling aroma rising heavenward to the throne than this?

Each piece of art I create is the result of the Holy Spirit's leading, for on my own I produce only chaos. So I always pray as I work, trying to follow the guidance of the Spirit because, you see, each graphic I create is both a gift from the Lord and to Him.

Every piece I do, whether for my own sites or others, has a spiritual meaning which teaches me and I hope blesses you. I pray you will take the time to read the spiritual meanings of the garden graphics on these pages, and that you will find them as inspiring as did I when the Holy Spirit gave them to me.

The spiritual meaning of this graphics set will soon be found on its own page along with all the components of the set.

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Important Note About the Art:
Some of the art used to depict these gardens includes elements of other art, photographs and concepts the Lord has led me to include. I therefore do not claim to be an artist, merely a graphical carpenter of sorts. The blueprints are not my own but the Master's and to Him belongs all the glory.