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Mountain Moments
always work that way and can take
up to three springs for the blossoms
to appear. All the time, she still
didn’t know if the flower would even
be pretty.
Galatians 6:9 says “Let us not
become weary in doing good, for
at the proper time we will reap a
harvest if we do not give up.” Aunt
Hattie never gave up on her gar-
dens. She spent many seasons in
her gardens fertilizing, cultivating ,
protecting, pinching off the bad
leaves, loving and preparing them
to send all over the world to blos-
som to their full glory and to share
their beauty with others. I can just
imagine her now in her garden in
the early morning mist watching for
the first bloom to open on one of
her treasures. Oh, the joy she must
have felt when she saw the “Jay Shell
Red” or the “Ernie Abbott” open to
reveal its beauty.
Through the seasons of Aunt
Hattie’s 104 years, she had many
gardens that were filled with much
more than lilies. One such gar-
den was filled with students in a
one room school house, where she
planted seeds of knowledge. An-
other garden was filled with her
husband and children, and later
grandchildren, where she lovingly
nurtured and planted seeds of a
legacy of love and the importance of
family that would continue for gen-
erations to come. But, her largest
and most beautiful garden was filled
with four generations of church
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family, Sunday School classes, and
brothers and sisters in Christ. In
this garden, Aunt Hattie had faith-
fully planted seeds whose results
were eternal. She cultivated and
cared for them most carefully,
because this garden would never
wither and die. It is a garden where,
with every change of season, we can
ever see new growth and beautiful
blossoms.
Written by Emily
Phillips who is an
adult class Sunday
school teacher at
Friendship Baptist
Church in Hiawas-
see. Georgia, where
she lives. She and
her husband,Ste-
ven, have two sons
and a daughter.
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is
over and gone; the flowers appear
on the earth; the time of singing has
come, and the voice of the turtledove
is heard in our land.
Song of Solomon 2:11-12
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