Last week was a wonderful time spent at Gartmore House in the beauty of the Trossachs in wonderful weather and in the company of family and friends, we felt much blessed.

 

While I was there I took the time to wander down to the walled garden which has for many years lain untouched and overgrown and has always been for me a place of peace and restoration. However in recent years Green Routes a project involving adults with special needs has been underway and the progress was amazing. Once again apple trees climbed the walls, beds flourished with vegetables and herbs and polytunnels nurtured raised beds bursting with produce. The garden was still a place of peace but also now of joy and energy and reawakening as people worked together using their gifts in a collaboration with nature at its most wonderful.

 

I cannot say enough to express how I feel about the time and energy and support which all involved put into this; human endeavour and God's handiwork together can achieve great things, perhaps it is a little glimpse of what the garden of Eden might have been.

 

"Then he commanded"Let the earth produce all kinds of plants, those that bear grain and those that bear fruit" and it was done. So the earth produced all kinds of plants, and God was pleased with what he saw." Genesis 1 vs 11