“So much of our garden activity is performed kneeling, in the position of prayer and supplication. I kneel to weed, to plant, and to harvest. In this position I often find myself meditating and praying. If I am troubled by some seemingly insurmountable problem, there is no better place to thrash it out than on my knees in the garden. If I am irritable or depressed, there is no better therapy than weeding.
However, there is far more than these things that makes gardening a worshipful act. I often tell people that I read about the life, death and resurrection of Christ in the Bible, but in the garden I experience it. Every time I plant a tiny misshapen seed and watch it burst into life from its earthy tomb I feel as though I have seen the Easter story reenacted.” – Christine Aroney-Sine