About a Gardener

by Werner Langer

The thoughts we nurture in our mind will have a tremendous impact on our life. This is a well documented fact. In this book the author compares the mind with a garden. The thoughts we grow and nurture, the thoughts we remove like weeds, this kind of gardening activity is what this book is all about, because we all possess an inner garden with a potential to bear much good fruit. 111 daily Christian devotions can be found in this book, a valuable gardening tool for all readers who seek inner growth and wish to gain additional wisdom for daily living. Life offers many formidable challenges and in this book the author shares many valuable and sometimes surprising discoveries made in his cottage garden. These delightful reflections will enrich your personal landscape as well, because most of life's solutions are found inside us, in our inner garden.

Genres: Christian

270 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 5, 2015

Reviews

[Christine Goodnough · Rating 4 out of 5]

Each short chapter is a devotional, comparing planning and caring for a garden to nurturing our Christian life. Many good comparisons of how a grower must be alert to the needs of his garden and how we need to be on guard spiritually, deal with invasive thoughts, etc.
The author grew up in Germany and emigrated to Australia as an adult. The book is well written and easy to read, though I can see places where the sentence syntax reveals his German roots.

[Rachelle Bachiu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow wow wow what a great devotional. I am very thankful that God has given Werner incite regarding our sinful nature to a garden which needs constant attention and loads of work. Each day brings challenges and how we respond shows the state of our heart. With this book it brought decisions that needed to be addresses so that our walk with God the Father be nurtured and kept in His will for each of us. Will be going through with this devotional once again before the year end.
Recommend this to everyone that needs to remove weeds from their hearts.

[brenda morris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Encouraging and inspiring

I so enjoyed the author's comparisons between gardening and tending our inner gardens, and how he pointed out how God is the ultimate gardener of our hearts. I loved how he tied scriptures to the various aspects of nurturing a garden. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was due to the many editing errors.

[Vickie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is written about God as a gardener of our lives. The author writes as our lives are gardens that need weeding (of our sins), and nurturing. He compares, through daily devotions, our innermost thoughts and deeds with the care of a garden. I found out quite a bit that I did not know about gardening, and how that relates to my life.

[Esther Dan · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent read

This is an excellent devotional from the perspective of an author who loves gardening. Very inspiring & highly recommend. P

[Debbie Moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

great read

Great read good compassion of our spiritual life to a beautiful garden. I recommend this book for anyone to read.

[Pat Valliere · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you love gardening and God this book is for you….

A very thought provoking read. The parallels between gardening and a relationship with God are worth exploring. I enjoyed this.