Butterfly Vuela

Tag: Master Gardener

  • That Path of Obedience!

    That Path of Obedience!

    I have arrived in the Center of my Garden this morning. “Like a weened child Lord, you have stilled and quieted my soul.” I am surrounded by elegance and beauty. “It really is beautiful Lord. You are beautiful!” He smiles.

    “Lord you had said it was not an easy path you asked me to take. Is there any work we might do to continue to be prepared and stay on that path of obedience?” “Yes there is , thank you for asking. You must pray. You must abandon all preconceived ideas of what the fulfilment of my promises would look like, for your life.” “Ok, help me to let go, some ideas and places in me might be too settled, but is that what the storm is about?” “The storm was for destruction, but I have used it to uproot you from ideas settled on where the foundations were cracked and breached.” “Thank you and I let go. Will you help me to stop helping you where the battle isn’t mine, but yours?” ” Yes, but you must pray.” “On it Lord!”

  • Let’s Walk!

    Let’s Walk!

    I step into the Center of my Garden and the Master Gardener takes my hand, as I offer mine. “Let’s walk today Krista.” “Yes, Lord,” and I smile with reverence. “You are working all things for my good.” “Yes, I am! Will You trust me?” “Yes, Lord, but I need your help in this. There are blind spots, left over co-dependencies, and more. I surrender these to you. Will you continue to teach me, to deliver me? I need wisdom and love to oversee my entire garden. I so want to know you deeper Lord!” “Yes, I see, follow me!” “Yes Lord” And I take another step in faith in the way he is leading me.

  • So this is love!

    So this is love!

    I am coming into the Center of my Garden to meet with my Lord. As I walk I am preparing myself. I want to be ready to hear and see and still enough to just be with him. Then I am preparing for the Master Gardener’s instructions for the day. As I enter I bow, “Lord I yield to you today.” I pause a moment with head bowed. “Peace to you my child,” he says. I receive it and look up. “Let us drink of love this morning.” “Yes Lord.” I sing the last line of a song from my childhood, “So this is love!” And indeed it is! Jesus is the love of my life. He is the one who came and found me at 5. He has been the one overseeing the growth in me. I was never really alone through my own faltering or others. When all was lost he made a way. He heals the damage inflicted on us by this world. He never intends to leave us in disrepair or our chains. Like me and my garden, he has a good plan for your life. Today, won’t you invite the Master Gardener in to set your garden in order? His hand is extended toward you too!

  • Deliverance is at the Door!

    Deliverance is at the Door!

    As I come into the Center of my Garden today, I step through some low covering branches that are full of leaves. “Good Morning Lord”, I speak as my head is low. I look up into his eyes. He glances down to the load in my arms. Before I can ask him to take it from me he asks: “Can I take that from you?” “Yes Lord, please,” and I smile back at him, (for he was smiling in love at me). I had tried to grasp and understand too many things for the tasks set by the Master Gardener. I was getting ahead of him. “Forgive me for getting ahead of you”. “You are forgiven.” “Lord I trust you, there are areas that seem to be confusing, but I believe you and I yield to your ways and timing!” “Thank you. Now shall we get to work?” “Oh yes Lord, indeed, lead on!”

    As the day progressed it wasn’t many hours and clarity and progress have come in the very areas I stepped into the Center of my Garden heavy laden with. The Master Gardener was working even while we were walking and working. Deliverance is at the door, so I welcome Him in! Will you?

  • Donning a Straw Hat

    Donning a Straw Hat

    “Lord, you are donning a straw hat today. I love it! How fun!” “Yes,” he speaks with the biggest grin. It is the type of hat that has the straw sticking out all around the fringe. “Are we planting today?”, I ask as I look around. “No, we are preparing the soil and rows to sew into.” “Ok Lord!” And before getting to work we embrace. “Let’s prepare this soil,” and I watch how he works to follow the Master Gardner’s lead.