The Garden of the Soul: Cultivating Your Spiritual Life

by Keri Wyatt Kent and Zelda Smith

Book Overview

Keri Wyatt Kent explores how the disciplines of gardening parallel the disciplines of spiritual life. As you work with God to create the right conditions in the soil of your soul, growth will follow. And the harvest will be glorious.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830823492
• ISBN13: 9780830823499
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: IVP Formatio
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Spiritual disciplines made practical for women

Are you seeking to incorporate the spiritual disciplines into your life, but unsure of how that looks? Do you know that something needs to go so that you may live more attuned to God's voice, but not sure just what? Do you know you need to "be still and know that He is God" but can't seem to get off the treadmill of daily living? If your heart answers yes to any of the above questions, you'll love The Garden of the Soul: Cultivating Your Spiritual Life, by Keri Wyatt Kent. The spiritual disciplines are for every Christian, but The Garden of the Soul puts them into the practical framework of a woman's life. Keri likens attending to the needs of our souls to tending a garden. In a refreshing and engaging manner, she takes a look at some of the areas we often tend to neglect, such as the need for solitude and silence, prayer and fasting, and Sabbath rest. She humbly shares from personal experiences some suggestions for incorporating spiritual disciplines into the landscape of our souls. Each chapter wraps up with a few helpful questions for personal contemplation.

Gardening and God

I included this book in "10 Fabulous Gardening Books For Inspiration" in the online Christian women's magazine, PositivelyFeminine. The author explores how growing plants and growing as Christians have similar rhythms and motivations. She shares lots of good tips, tells stories about her life and gardening, and relates Anne Lamott's favorite prayers "Help, help, help" and "Thanks, thanks, thanks" as good starting points for all of us. Kent writes that like a plant needs water, we need prayer daily.