A Garden Could Be Common Ground
August 13, 2009
This week’s From Seed to Harvest update will be a bit different. I want to share with all of you a story of how God may use a love for gardening to reach someone else’s heart.
As of this week our daughter, Olivia (18), is living with a family about 45 minutes away from us. The wife in this family will be called to heaven any day now, she has cancer. They homeschool their 13 year old daughter and Olivia will be overseeing the household affairs and the daughter’s education.
One of our main prayers is that Olivia and the daughter, who is wonderful but a complete opposite of Olivia, will bond and develop a special, sisterly relationship.
While Jeff and I were talking with the father about our daughters, we learned how his daughter was disappointed because they did not have a garden this year due to the mother being so sick. What a peace and an excitement came over Jeff and me. Olivia LOVES to garden. The father was also excited to hear this and promised that there would be a fall garden this year!
Olivia’s Herb Garden
We left thinking how wonderful God is and how He provides. The girls are already making plans for an herb garden. 
) I’ll keep you posted on how this special project I like to call, "Common Ground", is coming along! Hopefully it will be a place where the girls will laugh, work, sweat and become friends, while they produce some earthly AND Eternal fruit!
Please remember this family when you pray, especially that the suffering for the mom be as little as possible. And selfishly, I ask that you pray for Olivia, that she draws on God’s strength when she is weak, and that she will remember that her service is as unto the Lord.
Leave your garden update in the comment section with a link to your post if you have one. I’d love to hear if God has used your garden in any special way this summer.
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Comments (6)
What a wonderful story! I’ll be praying for lots of fruit–spiritually and agriculturally!
Oh, and our garden is about the same. We found out our tomatoes have some kind of blight. (Is that how you spell it?) I guess it’s threatening tomato harvests all over the midwest. We have one pumpkin that will be ready for picking soon.
Blessings–
Dana
We have been eating watermelon and cantelope every single day. What a delicious blessing! We also are suffering for tomatoes, but we are getting some. Last year we had 40 plants and were swimming in tomatoes… but we ran out of what I canned in January. This year I planted 80 plants, but we only have half the tomatoes of last year. But we have plenty to eat right now. We don’t have as many cucumbers either. But we have enough for us, and some to share too… so it is a success.
What a wonderful project. SO healing. May God bless your family as you bless this family.
I made a garden after my Nan died and it helped with the greif. The flowers brought me such joy. My Nana had given me some cuttings that struck.Its nearly Spring here in New Zealand. My gardening friends and I are having so much fun planning our gardens.
Since I last posted My little 3 year old and I are helping in the local community gardens. Christopher came home with a pocket full of sweet pea seeds in exchange fro digging in theri herb garden. They loved his enthusiasm. He is such a blessing to me.
I am also swopping some spare vegetables for goods at our local health shop. Its neat. We swopped lettuce and turnips today for apples and seeds.
My boys have put in their gardens in. Eden the 16 year old wants strawberries and carrotsand a lemonade tree. Christopher has peas, carrots, lettuce and a banana tree.
I have planted up a potatoe patch and I have 6 other patches, including another strawberry patch. We love strawberries.
My new to gardening friends are going to get together with me once a fortnight so I can teach their children how to grow their own gardens. The kids love it.
I`ll fill u in next month and tell u how our gardening adventures are going.
Olivia is ministering to this family in a beautiful way. May God richly bless her efforts.
Olivia’s herb garden is so pretty!
My update for this week is here:
http://bluebarnbulletin.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-harvesting-and-preserving.html
[...] Emma and I left, Miss S took us to see the fall garden that she and Olivia have planted. The peas have already sprouted! I look forward to the sweet fruit [...]
What an amazing ministry! May God bless!