Practice your English for Easter!

GETHSEMANE 

The name Gethsemane, a word from arameo, (Hebrew gat shemanim, "oil press”) suggests that the garden was a grove of olive trees in which was located an oil press. It is mentioned throughout the New Testament.

       Esta palabra viene del arameo 'Gath-Šmânê', que significa "prensa de aceite" (refiriéndose al aceite de oliva). Al parecer había una gran cantidad de árboles de olivo que rodeaban el área en aquellos días. Todos los evangelios hacen referencia de una forma u otra a este lugar.)

(By: Karla Wagener for Easter, 2024 written on Sunday, March 17, 2024
8:47 AM)

Like a magnificent garden, a population needs a caretaker. I know because I care for my garden! My plants are more than green leaves. There are many flowers because I have studied into how to propagate them. Most of the plants were here when I came, I brought some from my former residence and many were gifts. They all have special meanings to me.

There are many colors and music because I play the guitar and sing here. Little birds chirp along to the music and hummingbirds curiously hover about near the music. There is much love because I pray a lot and clear out all the bad feelings or negativity that pop up. Sometimes I draw what I call funny "Kar" tunes, my special authentic type of cartoons. I share what I have when I can. I grow a lot of spices, curative aloe, and even some tomatoes and use them while cooking which I do every day. 

I believe everyone should have good food to eat and their basic needs met!

I did not plan to have a garden, but the opportunity to have one presented itself and I seized the opportunity. Technology and modern education has offered me the skills to know what to do, putting the wheels of faith into concrete action.

There are living quarters in my garden and people come to visit here, where common good is exercised for all.

It occurs to me that it doesn't matter if the caretaker uses a private system or a public system. What is necessary is that care and compassion abound. And somebody has to be willing to occupy the positions to satisfy the needs of the multitudes, shall we say "a good administrator".

The manner of care in my garden is basically Catholic and it works exceptionally well in humbleness and service. However, there is an openess to even greater possibilities of understandings of the universe. As we know, "the sky has no limits".

My grandparents taught me the most important lesson of putting just the right amount of spices into dishes when cooking, and I discovered what great benefits natural spices have. "The right amount makes a delicious meal, just like the right amount of love in life". This applies to a beautiful garden also. Like a gardener expert once told me, "Plants are different and need the right amount of water, light and care".
We found a couple of cactus in the street and they are taller than I am now. A most lovely violet geranium came from a stem I took off of the alter after a Legion of Mary reunion.
Sometimes it just takes practice and awareness, and of course a lot of patience with consistent work.
Perhaps you would like to see my garden of love? But believe me the most important thing is that you live and feel it in your heart and in your soul!
Love spelt backwards is evol, like evolve! It evolves! When we evolve enough we will reach fulfillment, in the core of a garden of love.