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A Message from The Very Rev. Stephen Williams, Dean of St Peters Anglican Cathedral, Armidale Dear Friends, Welcome to St. Peters Garden Tour for 2008. What lies behind the enjoyment and satisfaction of a garden? The proliferation of gardening lifestyle shows on television would indicate that many Australians are profoundly drawn to this enjoyment and satisfaction and are prepared to spend large sums of money to procure it. I suspect most gardeners would identify with this in some way. If so the Bible would encourage us to see it as speaking of the future as much as the past. For the Bible not only begins but ends with a garden in paradise - one where there will be the tree of life whose leaves are for 'the healing of the nations'. We might dismiss it as a beautiful, imaginative, but merely poetic story were it not for another garden in which lies an empty tomb close by a place of execution. It's the link between paradise lost and paradise regained. It is the place where all that we know and love about gardens is given a concrete and eternal reality. May this garden tour be a great time of enjoyment for you, but may it also be an opportunity to praise the Creator and embrace the life that he offers. Yours sincerely, |
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