Tending Our Gardens

“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” Genesis 2:15

My father-in-law is a gardener, my husband learned to love gardening from him, and now our daughter loves to garden. All three of them possess patience, gentleness, and an acceptance of difficulty and challenges that puts them to work to find solutions to produce fruit.

They have learned a lesson from their gardens that has taken a long time for me to grasp, and that is work is a gift from God. That love of tending a garden, working, and watching it grow extends into the world around them.

In our lives, we each have a “garden” to tend. It may be our family, our workplace, our church, or our community. Sometimes, the work feels effortless, like a gentle spring rain nourishing the soil. Other times, it feels like hard, dry ground that resists our efforts. But no matter the season, God calls us to be faithful, trusting that our labor is never in vain.

Whatever He has placed in your hands today—whether big or small—tend it with joy. Water it with prayer, nurture it with love, and trust that God will bring the growth. He is the Master Gardener, and when we work alongside Him, our efforts will bear fruit in ways we cannot imagine.

Stay faithful, keep sowing, and watch God bring an abundant harvest in His perfect time!