evidence

A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.

Gladys Taber

anticipation

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

Captain W.E. Johns, The Passing Show: A Happy Book for Gardeners, 1939

opens

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Anne Lamott

moments - a video I stumbled on

Moments from Everynone on Vimeo.

dirt

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood

pleasant

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

poems

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Rainer Maria Rilke

forget-me-nots

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of Heaven, blossom the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

blossom

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

fly

Oh how the little things

Strengthen my tiny wings

Help me to take on the world

When you love me there's nothing I wouldn't try

I might even fly

Sara Groves, Fly

see

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

twice

with every burden I have carried

with every joy it's understood

life with you is half as hard

and twice as good

Sara Groves, Twice as Good

vanishing

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

Henri Cartier Bresson

express

The camera always points both ways. In expressing the subject, you also express yourself.

Freeman Patterson

artwork

All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.

Donald Miller, To Own a Dragon: Reflections On Growing Up Without A Father

dawn

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Anne Lamott

wholeness

Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

Philippians 4:6-7, The Message

beauty

Redemption comes in strange places, small spaces

Calling out the best of who we are

And I want to add to the beauty

To tell a better story

I want to shine with the light

That's burning up inside

Sara Groves, Add to the Beauty

nature

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank

mystery

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Anne Lamott