1. We plant, tend, and nourish gardens, gather and prune them, negotiating and harmonizing the resultants of nature’s forces.
We honor our Maker by making the most of what has been offered of His world as we find it, groom it, revere it, preserve it.
We honor our Maker by making the most of what has been offered of His world as we find it, groom it, revere it, preserve it.
2. To be gardeners, we must settle, make a place, put down roots in the same earth that sustains our flowers and plants, must resolve to be “here” and not “there” or anyplace else.
3. We embrace the finiteness of 'our place' and 'our moment', and do what we can to flourish 'where we are planted'—in the particular families, marriages, communities, and nation in which we have been placed.
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