Another Monday Another Week

So today being MONDAY I though that I might talk to you all about something new. ..something maybe other than gardening... who knows maybe about how the sun is bright? Or how chocolate is yummy? Or why I always lose my shoes when I run for a bus..... . But then I went to work, and we had this all school assembly. And guess what they talked about at all school assembly? Books? Exams? Nope... Why  they talked about Gardening of course? How could you not talk about gardening?? Right? (It's as if I've been living in a grey garden-less concrete world and the doors have only just recently opened up to revel the wondrous world of gardening)

So any way before I get too far away from what I was going to talk about... Our headmaster performed a little skit and gave a talk about "taking care of God's creation". He quoted from, Genesis 2:15 “ The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” He made a really good insight into this passage. Many people might assume that work came after the fall, that we never were meant to work or do hard labor. This is misconception probably was taken from the passage where God says "Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”" I think this passage talks more about death than it does work.

 

But if you look at the previous passage, “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden... to work it and take care of it.” We were designed to work and take care of God's creation. It is in our blood.

I find this absolutely amazing. I confess, I was one of those people who at one point in my life, thought that work came after the fall. But it didn't. We were designed to do things, to make things, to plant, tend, grow things. Now I'm not advocating that we must work ourselves to death, there is a time and a place for rest. Rest is great, I spent my whole weekend resting and recovering. I just enjoy how God has created us. I don't think I can add much more to that. God is amazing. Yep.. Pretty much sums it up.

I hope you all have enjoyed my gardening streak of posts and that they have been uplifting to you. I pray that as you read this you will be encouraged in your week.

Till next time. 

Blessings