Friday, September 27, 2013

Garden

garden

G`ARDEN, n. [Eng. yard, an inclosed place; L. hortus.]


1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, or plants, fruits and flowers; usually near a mansion-house. Land appropriated to the raising of culinary herbs and roots for domestic use, is called a kitchen-garden; that appropriated to flowers and shrubs is called a flower garden; and that to fruits, is called a fruit garden. But these uses are sometimes blended.
2. A rich, well cultivated spot or tract of country; a delightful spot. The intervals on the river Connecticut are all a garden. Lombardy is the garden of Italy.Garden, in composition, is used adjectively, as garden-mold, a rich fine mold or soil; garden-tillage,the tillage used in cultivating gardens.
G`ARDEN, v.i. To layout and to cultivate a garden; to prepare ground to plant and till it, for the purpose of producing plants, shrubs, flowers and fruits.

Song of Solomon 4:16

  • Old Testament
¶Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. 

John 19:41

  • New Testament
Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. 

2 Kings 21:18

  • Old Testament
And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead. 

Ezekiel 31:8

  • Old Testament
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. 

Helaman 7:10

  • Book of Mormon
And behold, now it came to pass that it was upon a tower, which was in the garden of Nephi, which was by the highway which led to the chief market, which was in the city of Zarahemla; therefore, Nephi had bowed himself upon the tower which was in his garden, which tower was also near unto the garden 

Genesis 3:8

  • Old Testament
And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. 

Song of Solomon 6:2

  • Old Testament
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. 

Moses 4:14

  • Pearl of Great Price
And they heard the voice of the Lord God, as they were walking in the garden, in the cool of the day; and Adam and his wife went to hide themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. 



  Personal Definition:
I think a garden is a place of growth and a place where new things are developing. I hadn't really thought of this before, but Jesus died in the GARDEN of Gethsemane. That was a place of ultimate growth and a place of new beginnings, and a place where new beginnings were made possible!
I think also, if you're going to use a garden as a metaphore of your heart, you can grow good things there too, and you can grow bad things like weeds. So I want to make sure I'm growing good seeds in my heart, like faith, (it even talks about how faith is like a little seed in the scriptures)

Alma 32:
 28 Now, we will compare the word unto a aseed. Now, if ye give place, that a bseed may be planted in your cheart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your dunbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to eenlighten my funderstanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.
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