Garden’s bounty: Spirituality, joy

So, it turns out, we tend our inner selves in the garden, too, sustained and buoyed by the seamless cycles of planting, growing and harvesting. In this, perhaps we find redemption or, scariest of all, the courage to change.

Author Anaïs Nin, best known for her decidedly secular writings, may not have grasped the joy of digging in the dirt. But she understood change, and the power of the garden as metaphor.

"And the day came," she writes, "when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

If You Go

Central Baptist Church is at 106 W. Lancaster Ave. in Wayne (across from the Anthony Wayne theater). Summer services are at 9:30 a.m. Child care is available. For information, go to www.cbcwayne.org or call 610-688-0664.

Kathleen Bailey will speak about spirituality and her garden in the sermon Sunday. Future speakers in the "Spirituality of Gardening" series will be the Rev. Laurie Sweigard, one of the church's pastors and a former social worker, on Aug. 19; psychotherapist Carol Kortsch on Aug. 26; and public-relations specialist Bonnie Chandler on Sept. 2. A garden visit will follow each service.