GARDENS

 At a funeral service I recently attended, a handout included a poem called "The Garden of Promise".  I searched the Internet for the author and found it was Sherrie Bradley-Neal - a noted poet from Hamilton, Ohio.  Ms. Bradley-Neal works for the Calvary Christian Center there.  You can find dozens of her poems on the website: https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/8f5c3d87/files/uploaded/flipbook.pdf  

Thomas Kinkade, the Painter of Light, produced a beautiful oil painting he titled "The Garden of Promise."   

Here is the poem.. 

These is a place, I have been told, 

Beyond an open gate.

All have been invited

Where friends and loved ones wait.

It holds eternal promise

of everlasting peace.

No pain or sorrow ever comes

and teardrops there have ceased.

Abundant life is evident

Constant, fresh and new.

A garden of provision

with eternity in view.

The promise is awaiting

A place we can abide.

Fulfilled for all who answer

The call to come inside.