laupäev, oktoober 15, 2005
Garden (sorry, it's about my mother again!)
Elizabeth and I listened to "The Secret Garden" online last night while the gang was at Going Up. (Go to http://www.oneplace.com/Ministries/Focus_on_the_Family_Radio_Theatre/Archives.asp and scroll down to the very bottom of the page. OnePlace has lots of great things and we really enjoy it!)
At the end ("Archie, I'm in the garden!"), I started thinking about my mother sitting out in her garden, drinking a cup of coffee and reading the Bible. Then I started thinking about one of her favorite songs, which I am relieved to see we DID sing at her funeral, "In the Garden". She often led the Home League ladies in singing the first verse as part of their prayer time together.
Here are some places you can read the book online:
http://www139.pair.com/read/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett/The_Secret_Garden/
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BurSecr.html
http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/secretgarden/
I guess I'm not 100% sure where I'm going with this. But it was a great comfort to me to picture that my mother is not dead; she is just out in the Garden. I am sure that one of her first requests of God when she got to heaven was that she might have "a bit of earth" (the phrase Mary uses in the book when she asks her uncle if she can plant seeds somewhere).
Evelyn
At the end ("Archie, I'm in the garden!"), I started thinking about my mother sitting out in her garden, drinking a cup of coffee and reading the Bible. Then I started thinking about one of her favorite songs, which I am relieved to see we DID sing at her funeral, "In the Garden". She often led the Home League ladies in singing the first verse as part of their prayer time together.
Here are some places you can read the book online:
http://www139.pair.com/read/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett/The_Secret_Garden/
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BurSecr.html
http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/secretgarden/
I guess I'm not 100% sure where I'm going with this. But it was a great comfort to me to picture that my mother is not dead; she is just out in the Garden. I am sure that one of her first requests of God when she got to heaven was that she might have "a bit of earth" (the phrase Mary uses in the book when she asks her uncle if she can plant seeds somewhere).
Evelyn
