Where do you go to get refreshed?
When I was nine, I went to the Vacation Bible School at the Little Union Church, in the town where I lived. It was at that time I sang my first solo, ‘I Come To The Garden Alone.’ I loved the words to the song and found great comfort in them.
I come to the garden alone,
While the dew is still on the roses,
And the voice I hear, falling on my ear,
The Son of God discloses.
[Chorus:]
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own,
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
He speaks, and the sound of His voice,
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,
And the melody that He gave to me,
Within my heart is ringing.
(Chorus )
I’d stay in the garden with Him,
Tho’ the night around me be falling,
But He bids me go, thro’ the voice of woe,
His voice to me is calling.
(Chorus )
When God made man, he put him in a garden. Genesis 2:15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. It was a place of peace and tranquility. Where God gave Adam a job, but one he would find pleasure and contentment doing. Adam was in paradise, but God did not allow him to be idle. Another thing Adam did every day was walk and talk with God. To give him human comfort he gave him a woman who helped him in the garden. It wasn’t until Adam committed the sin of disobedience did he and his wife try to hide from God.
Since that time we have been trying to find the peace and tranquility of the garden. Nothing we do, or throw money at, gives us a sense of contentment like when we commune with God in a quiet place. My garden is the place I find the most contentment, when I am still and quiet. There I can talk to the LORD with no distractions. To get back to a life worth living we need to have a daily relationship with God our Father.
As parents we need to teach our children to find contentment and peace in daily communion with God. The 23 Psalms talks about the green pastures and being led beside still waters for restoring of one’s soul. Let us help our children learn to commune on a daily basis with God to keep their souls restored.
We as writers often find peace and or romance for our characters in the scene of a lake or mountain stream. Did we learn tranquility first hand in a place like that?
The Lord will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought,
And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Isaiah 58:11