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 The
Girl in the Garden
(written August 14, 1998)
This past summer, while working at Castaway, the Young
Life property in Minnesota, I was washing clothes one Sunday afternoon
when I looked out of a window and saw a girl cutting flowers in a garden
which she had tended throughout the summer. She was preparing vases of
flowers for guests of the camp who would be arriving later that day. She
worked unnoticed, doing a task for which she would receive no recognition.
That girl, and that moment, were a wonderful illustration of the true
servant’s life and, for me, reflected something of Jesus’ life
of caring.
This song is a feeble, but well-intended attempt, to capture
the significance of a simple moment, a common sight, a "little, nameless,
unremembered act of kindness and love." They are all around us, you
know.
The picture was taken the day after I wrote the song and
when I was visiting with Ann, the gardener, at the garden referred to
in the song. (Thanks to Sandy Scarborough for the photo.)
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