A gentle practice to mark transition, release the past, and welcome grace into your growing space 🌱 Opening Reflection: Sometimes You Start Over There are moments in the garden that feel like failure. The squash vine borer got to your favorite plant. The tomatoes blighted. The heat came early. The plans didn’t unfold the way…
A quiet invitation to notice, name, and nurture what endured 🌿 Opening Reflection: What Remains Is Worth Remembering By the time summer begins to wane, your garden tells the truth. Some things didn’t make it—burned out, bug-bitten, bolted too fast. But some things did survive. Some things kept growing, quietly and faithfully, even under scorching…
A gentle invitation to pause, reflect, and align your garden plans with God’s grace 🌿 Opening Reflection: Begin With Prayer, Not Just a Plan Before I plant a single seed, I try to quiet myself. Not with a checklist or a to-do list—but with a prayer. Because gardening isn’t just about productivity. It’s about partnership….
Lessons rooted in soil, struggle, and the grace to begin again 🌿 Opening Reflection: Not Just Surviving—Rooting Deeper I used to think resilience meant bouncing back. Springing up. Staying strong. But the garden has taught me a different definition—one that is slower, deeper, and often quieter. Resilience, in the garden, looks like: Spiritual and physical…
There’s something sacred about gardening—about tending what’s been planted, showing up in every season, and learning to trust that what’s hidden will one day bloom. When I first began writing Rooted in Grace, I thought I was just capturing my story. But as the words took shape, I realized God was weaving together something bigger:…
