World Vision is distributing relief supplies – including food,
clean water, blankets and tents to children and families impacted by
the earthquake and aftershocks in Haiti.
Care Haiti Earthquake Relief
Care is sending helping to rescue people from the rubble, and
providing food and water.
UNICEF Haiti Earthquake Relief
UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, is providing
immediate support, even though its own offices in Port-au-Prince
were devastated by the earthquake. At this writing, the
UNICEF USA donation page is down, though.
Samaritan's Purse Haiti Earthquake Relief
Samaritan's Purse dispatched a team just hours after the quake
to help with water, shelter, medical care and other emergency needs.
We will focus on medical help, shelter, clean water and hygiene
supplies.
Global Giving Haiti Earthquake Relief
Global Giving has launched an emergency earthquake relief fund
that will provide emergency assistance.
However many holy words you read,
however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act
on upon them? - Buddha
In these trying economic times, please adopt a person or family with
whatever aid you can give, Please see disaster agencies under Aid link for
Haiti relief.
The
purpose of this Website is to plant seeds of love,
light and joy, by tending to the needs of Ourselves,
our Brothers and Sisters in this world and to tend
to the wonder-filled planet Mother Earth Created by God
and placed in our care.
This site is for those of
all faiths and those without a
faith in God with a hope and prayer that they will find Jesus Christ as
their personal savior and know that
He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
My only goal is to inspire and give hope for those who are
hurting, lonely, shut in or have any of the many problems,
illnesses and difficulties this 'World' can present to
each of us and that they will find solace,
comfort and peace in the arms of
Jesus.
" Come
to me, all you who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28
My prayer in starting this website was
and remains if it
helps one person I will have done my job.
Interestingly, that one person it helps daily is me.
When my life on this Earth ends and my spirit
returns to God,
I will be happy if I can reach the state of love that the thirteenth
century Poet, Rumi reached during his life. Those in attendance
at his funeral were Christian, Jew and Muslim; and no doubt
many other Religions and Philosophical leanings. One of
Rum's quotes (Paraphrased), is:
"I went to a Church to find
God and He wasn't there.
I went to a Synagogue to find God
and He wasn't there.
I went to Mosque to find God and
He wasn't there.
I went into my heart and He was there".
Jesus
the Way to the Father
John 14: 5-14
5Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you
are going, so how can we know the way?"
6Jesus answered,
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No
one comes to the Father except through me.
7If you
really knew me, you would know
my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him." 8Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough
for us." 9Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have
been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.
How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10Don't you
believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I
say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who
is doing his work.
11Believe me when I
say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on
the evidence of the miracles themselves.
12I tell you the truth, anyone who has
faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things
than these, because I am going to the Father.
13And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring
glory to the Father.
14You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
In my view, The Creator God made
all things
and that we are made of the Stardust that
The Creator used to make all things.
The use of material from many of the earths Religious
Traditions
and Secular Traditions will be found in pages of this Website.
It is for each person in their journey through life to find
The Joy of their lives and what part of that Stardust is their destiny.
The Lord God took the man and
put him in the
Garden of Eden as its
Gardener,
to tend and care for it. Genesis 2:15-16
This beautiful blue and green earth is not being tended to,
rather it is being destroyed by man.
The first job God
gave Adam was to "tend" and "care"
for the Garden of Eden, then Adam was given the
gift of woman, and the responsibility to "tend" and to "care"
for her and she for him, helping each other.
With the fruit of their becoming one the Lord gave the
precious gift of a child and their responsibility was to then
"tend" and "care" for their family along with the Garden.
Tending the Garden believes our role today is still the
same,
to "tend" and "care" for God's Green Earth that supports
and provides for every man, woman, boy and girl alive
today and for future generations. And to "tend'
and "care" for all God's children beginning with each family
and extending to the family of man. It is my prayer at Tending
the Garden that God will use this Website in His Way
and that the message boards for Prayer Request-Praise
Reports and Inspirational stories will "Serve" our Brothers
and Sisters by providing a forum to enable us to follow the command,
"Love
the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.
All the Law and
the Prophets hang on these two commandments." Matt. 22:37-40
The Woman who founded
the longest active Day Care Centers in North America
The Woman who planted
seeds in so many Children's lives over a 63 year period that her legacy
will live for ever has
an x unknown expositional number of fruit born
The little 12-year-old
girl who went to the Church Alter and Promised God She would do the best
she could do with His help.
The little girl who
carried the newspaper for 1 penny per paperwhile growing up during the depression on a
dairy farm
The little girl who
walked to School one mile each way
The big girl who paid
every cent for her College education
The woman who started
a family while working up to three jobs, attended College and started
family all at the same time
The woman who worked
at jobs that prepared her to set up in Church one night and say silently
� Lord I can do That, when the Pastor said what this neighborhood
needs is some type of day care for all the women who now work after
World War ll. Thus was born Tiny Tots
Nursery School that became Hester's Creative Schools...Infant Care,
Kindergarten, First through Third Grade Schools. Morning, Day Care and
Evening Care
Pioneer in Child Care,
Developed Modern Child Care USA
Pioneer in Recycling
especially Recycling used in Children's Creative Art Work
The Woman who loved
and took care of two dying husbands for so many, many years, My God
where did she get the courage and strength?
The Woman who loves
her family so deeply and has reared them to be good Citizens, good
people, intelligent and hard working people that have made immeasurable
contributions to the world, be they big or small
The Woman who has given me a second
Mother, not a step-motherand a blended family that is
"Family", not blended, a family
that was always my dream and wish
The Woman who gave
friend of over forty years Leroy Leftwitch more than any other person in
his entire life including the
Perfect Catch.
The list goes on and
on and only you and your memories can be added
The Woman with the
Atlantic Ocean as her back yard at Emerald Isle, The Badin Lake House (A
Slice Of Heaven), Cone Lake in back yard of her home and now resides in
one of the most progressive retirement centers in the United States
Wellspring.
Use of Loving
Discipline when all others in circa 1960's and 1970's were saying let
the child decide what a mistake the latter has turned out to be
Use of proper
nutrition and never ever let any child that looked malnourished or too
poor to eat breakfast go hungry to start day hungry
Remained positive with
much adversity in life, example taking care of two dying husbands for 25
plus years and then taking care of third friend in his dying days
Plus Much More A Must
Read for all those who are interested in a REAL "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND"
A true life adventurer
who has visited over fifty Countries and all fifty States in USA.
Publishing soon.....be
on look out for truly amazing story of an amazing woman
The Woman who saved
North Carolina Child Care from being a Department of Child Welfare
through her Positive Political Activism
Attended and Taught at
International Child Care Event in Beijing, China
The Woman who became a
trustee of her beloved High Point University
A Woman of vision who
dedicated her life to others by planting seeds with eternal value, an
example is one of her first Students is a Medical Doctor.
Inauguration of Dr. Nino Quebin Left to Right:
Ronald C Harris, Henrietta Hester Harris and Dr. Nido Quebin President of
High Point University.
The Lord God is the Master Potter and the Master Gardener.
He not only molds and shapes our lives,
He "tends" to every aspect and detail of our lives
and He "cares" for us with His Infinite Love
and His Grace that exceeds our understanding. "You
did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed
you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last."
(John 15:16)
God also gives us positive people in our
lives.
God gives us parents, friends, relatives, teachers,
ministers, Rabbis and Angels to help mold our lives.
Do not forget to entertain
strangers, for by so doing
some people have entertained angels without knowing it. Hebrews 13:2
God
has a plan of happiness and joy for each of his children,
you and me including all that have lived and all that will
ever live on this wonderful earth God created for us.
O Great Spirit whose voice we hear in the winds
and whose breath gives life
to all the world,
Hear Us, We are small and weak.
We come to be with you in mind to find strength and wisdom.
Let us walk in beauty
and make our eyes
ever behold the sunset.
Make our hands respect
the things you have made
and our ears sharp
to hear you voice.
Make us wise
so that we may understand
the things you have taught our relatives.
Let us learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock.
We seek strength,
not to be greater than our brothers and sisters,
but to fight our greatest enemy-ourselves.
Make us always ready to come to you
with clean hands and straight eyes.
So when life fades, as the fading sunset our spirit may come to you
without shame.
Source Unknown
THE WIND, ONE BRILLIANT
DAY
The wind , one brilliant
day, called
to my soul with an odor of jasmine.
"In return for the odor
of my jasmine,
I'd like all the odor of your roses."
"I have no roses; all the
flowers
in my garden are dead."
"Well then, I'll take the withered petals
and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." The wind left, And I wept.
And I said to myself;
"What have you done with the garden
that was entrusted to you?"
Antonio Machado
translated by RB
2004 Tending the Garden,
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10-1-1994
Tending The
Garden, Inc. rharris@tendingthegarden.org
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