Update From My Garden

There's nothing going on in my little garden except for....

...some fruits left hanging in my pomegranate tree,

...balloon flowers popping up,

...a ginger vine in bloom 

..and the little mulberry bush bearing fruit again!

Though my garden often brings pleasant feeling when I see blooms, there are times when I don't see any sign of fruitfulness or budding activity at all. When you are a gardener, you know that seasons come and seasons go so you just have to let it be.

Though the fig tree does not bud and there are not grapes on the vine, 

though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, 

though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,

yet I will rejoice in the Lord, 

I will be joyful  in God my savior.

Habakkuk 3:17-18

Orange Jessamine

I wonder why they're called in that color when they are so brilliant white.

It's one kind of flower that I missed. It is very fragrant especially at night. I had 2 trees of this that never failed to bloom all year round. It always filled my house with its fragrance. When we moved to our recent house, I could only move the potted plants. 

"White...is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black...God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white." 

-- G. K. Chesterton

My Favorite Bench At The Prayer Garden

I've sat on this bench for many hours begging God to change my situation. I did not get the answer I expected  but He changed my heart. He showed me the other side of where I was and I had a better perspective of things.

My situation did not improve but my heart did.

On this cozy bench adorned with white flowers, a miracle happened to me.

Something White From My Garden

The fragrant Jasmine in the night...

the beauty of Hibiscus in the morning light.... 

the hanging plaque that commands the gardener to rejoice with her blooms in sight...

they all blur when the gardener saw a promise of life --

in the birdhouse something glowed in white!

Inserted Note: Many have asked about the green fruit in the collage. It's called sugar apple (Atis). More info here.