NIV God’s Word for Gardeners Bible

Posted on: Nov 9, 2014        In: Life and Love        With: No comments

The Bible is filled with references to gardens, plants, sowing, reaping … and the list goes on and on.  Shelley Cramm looks at these verses with a gardeners heart, and has created a hybrid devotional/ study Bible based on the gardening truths found in God’s Word.  This study Bible provides daily Bible readings for an entire year.  Topics include:  Garden Tours, Garden Work, Garden Tools, and Garden Stories.  The sub-title to this NIV Bible is “grow your faith while growing your garden”.

Gardener's Bible

Shelley was the delightful speaker for the September Round Table meeting at First Baptist Church Richardson.  What a blessing it was to hear her share Biblical stories from a gardener’s point of view.  Shelley has a blog at gardenindelight.com.  On this site, she gives the following description of this study/devotional Bible:

If you . . . bring leftovers home to your compost pile. . . believe in the difference between cultivating and weeding . . . have chosen a home because of a tree. . . never feel lonely when you garden alone. . . have always wondered about the meaning of mustard seeds. . . sense an unexplainable peace from gardening and you’d like an explanation . . . this book is for you!
– See more at: http://www.gardenindelight.com/books/niv-gods-word-gardeners-bible-grow-faith-growing-garden/#sthash.07UEQ68b.dpuf

Gardener's Bible

This is a beautiful Bible.  Under the dustcover, the hardcover also has this pretty image.  I like that.

Gardener's Bible

This is a sample page.  The bookmark gave me something to think about – “Believe your garden to be among God’s great garden stories.”  I had never thought of my garden in that manner.

Life began in a garden.  Jesus retreated to a garden to pray.  Garden lessons abound throughout the entire Bible.

Gardener's Bible

This was the last slide Shelley shared.  I love these verses.  I feel that Shelley’s desire is for us to meditate (study) upon God’s word so that we may be like “trees planted by streams of water, which yield fruit in season”.  I am thankful that I was able to hear Shelley.  She certainly gave me new insights into the “oldest gardening book”.

Blessings to you and yours,