Contemplation Garden

St. Paul’s landscape has a new garden (just down the left path from the front door). It’s a Contemplation Garden (for meditation and solace). It’s a garden for everyone, but it honors the women of St. Paul’s for their untiring service in carrying out the many tasks which keeps our church community alive and well in today’s complicated world.

When you visit the Contemplation Garden, consider the following prayer:

Prayer for a Garden

God, we need peace – so we come to the garden for quiet,

We need joy –so we come to the garden for our senses …

The green of leaf, the delicacy of the flower.

We need to let things go – so we come to the garden for rest,

And we need to let people go,

So we come to the garden to remember them.

We need hope --so we come to the garden to watch things grow,

Reminding ourselves to be planters

And to enjoy what others have planted.

We need benches to reflect on You in our lives.

We need paths to help us recognize our journeys.

We need shared communities.

So we come to this garden to give and receive a blessing,

A blessing from your bountiful hand.

Maren C. Tirabassi, Pastor