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Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening
The garden is a personal place of retreat and delight and labor for many people. Gardening helps us collect ourselves, much as praying does. For rich and poor -- it makes no difference -- a garden is a place where body and soul are in harmony. In Inheriting Paradise Vigen Guroian offers an abundant vision of the spiritual life found in the cultivation of God's good creatio...more
Paperback, 110 pages
Published
April 14th 1999
by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
(first published April 1st 1999)
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I did find his thinking through faith within a year of a life of a garden to be refreshing and poetically appealing. I've enjoyed other things Guroian has written. Truth can be expressed in the mundane life of a garden - or perhaps like at the Transfiguration of Christ, we can see eternal truths revealed through the garden because God intended it that way from the beginning.
I read this book in about an hour's time. It was an interesting concept: putting gardening within a parallel spiritual analogy.
I loved this. As a gardener, I found myself saying, "Yes, exactly!" so many times. A wonderful little book.
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This book has some really great sections that grabbed me. I now have a better appreciation in my understanding of why gardening mirrors the seasons of life. I hope to experience this in practice the coming spring, summer, fall and winter.
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Vigen Guroian resides with his wife June Vranian in Culpeper, Virginia, where he mostly tends to his large perennial and vegetable gardens. June is an Interior Designer. Vigen and June have two children. Their son Rafi is 28 years of age, a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College, and employed at Cox Newspapers in Washington D.C. Their daughter Victoria is 24 years old, a graduate of Washington and Lee...more
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“I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden below would be better off. I know that God values them no less than I do. So when I plant in spring I also hope to taste of God in fruit of summer sun and sight of feathered friends.”
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“My son Rafi is enchanted with cyberspace. But we are not disembodied mind or spirit, we are our bodies - cruising the Internet won't teach us that. It may even trick us into thinking that having a body and a place is not important. Gardening teaches us differently. I do not mean industrial mechanized farming, I mean the kind of gardening that any one of us can do with his hands and feet and the simplest tools.”
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