Closer to God in a garden
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Closer to God in a garden
Being a pagan, the spiritual significance of my garden to me should be fairly obvious. I was wondering though, does anyone else feel closer to the divine when they are in their garden?
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I'm a pantheist and I feel the 'wow' of the universe whenever I'm outside and take the chance to look around. Being outside and working the soil makes me feel part of the bigger picture.
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We dont do Religion as such but there is a feeling of being at one with something when you are out there.I never could understand why Religious people wanted to worship in a building,surely the best way of honouring a devine being/creator is to stand/sit in the place THEY created? (Hence the poem)
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Ah, let's not get into a conversation about what religion is... I don't think I do religion either! (Although being pagan of the wiccan flavour, I'm apparently a pantheist too) Let's just say that when I'm in my garden I feel attuned and in touch with a little piece of nature. It's teaching me a lot, and not just about gardening! It's difficult to express, but my garden is my temple, my rest, my tonic, and my inspiration. I love it to pieces, even though it looks like shit right now 

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I feel I am the odd one out here........a card carrying Christian and a SSer!
Yes I do feel closer to God in the garden!
Nev
Yes I do feel closer to God in the garden!
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i feel a connection to mother nature (or what ever term you personally choose to identify with) ... i am not a parent but i liken the feeling to being the same form of nurturing ... i am helping to create something beautiful ... watching it grow and blossom into all it can be while protecting it as best i can without making it weak 

I don't know if I'd say it's because I'm a witch, but I certainly love growing things.
To date I've never had my own garden (one of many reasons I am impatient for the warm weather to arrive so I can start), but I do have my indoor plants and herbs. I love growing them from seed and watching each sprout emerge from the soil, uncurl, reach for the sun, grow and change.
I love the creation of life.
All creation is the divine imbued in the world.
I feel the same peace and connection with the sacred in my living room, sitting in a sun-patch, reading and watching my plants as I do outdoors.
I'll have to get back to you about outdoor gardening though. One thing I can say so far is that I love the labour. It puts me in touch with my body, which is yet another manifestation of the divine.

To date I've never had my own garden (one of many reasons I am impatient for the warm weather to arrive so I can start), but I do have my indoor plants and herbs. I love growing them from seed and watching each sprout emerge from the soil, uncurl, reach for the sun, grow and change.
I love the creation of life.
All creation is the divine imbued in the world.
I feel the same peace and connection with the sacred in my living room, sitting in a sun-patch, reading and watching my plants as I do outdoors.
I'll have to get back to you about outdoor gardening though. One thing I can say so far is that I love the labour. It puts me in touch with my body, which is yet another manifestation of the divine.

Well at least there are two of us!Libby wrote:You are not aloneWombat wrote:I feel I am the odd one out here........a card carrying Christian and a SSer!
Yes I do feel closer to God in the garden!
Nev

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Hey Nev and Libby, I'm inclined to think that I have rather more in common with either of you than I would with a witch who doesn't grow anything!
I wish I could really articulate what I feel in the garden. I was thinking about it today whilst digging, as I watched the big ol' sycamore in the field over the wall swaying in the wind, and I realised that I think about myself in a similar way to the tree; as something springing from the earth, connected to it, and feeling very much a part of the scene.
Hmm, now that I think about it, I wrote a short story on this some time ago. Kind of. I'll go and post it on my blog... there, if anyone's interested, it's called The Evertree.
I wish I could really articulate what I feel in the garden. I was thinking about it today whilst digging, as I watched the big ol' sycamore in the field over the wall swaying in the wind, and I realised that I think about myself in a similar way to the tree; as something springing from the earth, connected to it, and feeling very much a part of the scene.
Hmm, now that I think about it, I wrote a short story on this some time ago. Kind of. I'll go and post it on my blog... there, if anyone's interested, it's called The Evertree.
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hang on, Mandyz did say that she loves to watch her plants emerging and does grow stuff in doors.hedgewizard wrote:Hey Nev and Libby, I'm inclined to think that I have rather more in common with either of you than I would with a witch who doesn't grow anything!

hedgewizard wrote:I wish I could really articulate what I feel in the garden. I was thinking about it today whilst digging, as I watched the big ol' sycamore in the field over the wall swaying in the wind, and I realised that I think about myself in a similar way to the tree; as something springing from the earth, connected to it, and feeling very much a part of the scene.
I can relate to this although not sure what religion I would class myself as, I think that if you take the crux of much of them you get the same conclusion - respect and love fellow man and the planet that we live on. I think that we are all conected to the earth and everything on it, so when you do go and work with the soil you are strengthening that connection. The same when you spend time with animals or other people.
If I spend too much time on this computer it is amazing how out of sorts I can feel with the world around me, I almost have to readjust myself at times to the real world. An hour on the allotment is generally the best remedy or this winter as I have moved I have spent a lot of time walking around the green areas of Bristol, can't beat it.
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