Here we are in ‘almost spring’…almost. The daffodils are starting to surface and I watch for them daily because they give me such joy.
When you enter our daylily gardens you will see a sign which reads ‘This is my Father’s World’. Many recognize it immediately but some have asked what it means. By profession I was a singer. This was the first solo I sang in church at the age of nine. I will always be very fond of it. You see as you scroll through the website this time some of my favorite hymns displayed. I hope that they bring comforting thoughts to mind because…it is our Father’s world.
1 This is my Father’s world, And to my listening ears All nature sings, and round me rings The music of the spheres. This is my Father’s world: I rest me in the thought Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas– His hand the wonders wrought.
2 This is my Father’s world: The birds their carols raise, The morning light, the lily white, Declare their Maker’s praise. This is my Father’s world: He shines in all that’s fair; In the rustling grass I hear Him pass, He speaks to me everywhere.
3 This is my Father’s world: O let me ne’er forget That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet. This is my Father’s world: Why should my heart be sad? The Lord is King: let the heavens ring! God reigns; let earth be glad!
Sing Joyfully, 1901
Author: Maltbie D. Babcock
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Beauty is for “seeing” – For revelation and appreciation – A means to lift the mind of man Above the common things of life To higher levels of creative thought.
Beauty is for “seeing”… For beauty is a quality that is possessed In some degree, by all things everywhere… A quality we may perceive Through sight and sound – Through smell and taste and touch – And intuition – In all that lies around us…
An intrinsic quality that we may find In trees and grass and wayside flowers, In earth and sky, In sunset lights, In songs of birds, and children’s laughter, In face and form and character, In all creative art – And even in the chimney smoke Against the background of the dawn…
A quality that, when perceived, Brings deep fulfillment, harmony of thought, And inner peace. But beauty goes beyond the level Of unaided senses: Under the microscope a blade of grass Displays a wondrous beauty – Row upon row of glistening cells In orderly array…
And – through the telescope – The heavens declare a glory Far beyond what David’s eye could see: The infinite wonders of the star-filled sky In the “great spaces of the field of night”… All these bring revelation and appreciation.
So beauty – when perceived – Becomes a memorable experience: The “Fifth Dimension” – in the realm of Spirit – Transcending Length, and Breadth, and Height, And Time…
A “dimension” which includes Both object an observer; That – linked with purpose and with order – Reveals to man the “God incarnate here” In whom we “live and move – And have our being”.
~Hans Ernst 1971
Happy Gardening from all of us here at Arrasmith Farm. Harriet, Jackie, Tina, Hana and Annette
