Finding God in the Garden Backyard Reflections on Life, Love, and Compost

Name: Finding God in the Garden Backyard Reflections on Life, Love, and Compost
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ISBN: 9780316738668

ISBN-10: 0316738662

ISBN-13: 9780316738668

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Balfour Brickner

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What do natural beauty and a garden compost pile have to teach us about the meaning of faith? What can the demise of a favorite rhododendron reveal about the limits of prayer? Everything in the garden becomes grist for Balfour Brickner's search for a spirituality that can withstand the tests of both modern cynicism and contemporary science. What, in due course, he discovers: it is observation, doubt, wonderment, and questioning-not blind acceptance of a given doctrine-that lead to faith. For Rabbi Brickner, the resonance between biblical teachings and botanical life provides daily revelations.

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 4/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.33" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Balfour Brickner is a dedicated political and social activist. He lives in New York City and tends to his garden in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Eden: The First Garden



Coneflowers and Sex



When the Rhododendron Died



On Compost, Death, and Immortality



Garden-Variety Miracles



Miracle-Gro and the Milky Way



A Life Lesson from the Peonies



The Garden Bench



Poison Ivy, Healing, and Spirituality



Letting Go


Epilogue