Welcome to Fern's Homestead!

Obedience is the fruit of faith;
patience, the bloom on the fruit. -- Rossetti

We are all like the flowers and plants that grow in a flower garden. Some of us are the roses, delicate, soft, shapely and beautiful beyond words. Some of us are the daisies, cheerful, spontaneous and happy go lucky. Just like the garden with many varieties of flowers and plants, so is the species of humans. There are short ones like the small dianthus lying low to the ground near the front accenting the stately tall iris with its long slender leaves and flowing petals. Some gardens even have some cacti with their hurtful pricks. But we all must agree each and every flower and plant in the garden has its beauty and place. None should be removed because they didn't grow quite right or look quite how we expected. For the variety of a flower garden is what makes it most beautiful. And so is the same for our friends, family and neighbors; they might not be the most beautiful flowers in the garden but each fills a spot and provides the world with a uniqueness of its own. __Pat Hedden

"If you eat foods with a long shelf life, you'll have a short shelf life."

~ Rees Moerman

"My mind is a garden.
My thoughts are the seeds.
My harvest will be either
flowers or weeds."

~ Mel Weldon

When things are tough,
just remember,
every flower that ever bloomed
had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there!

~ Anonymous

Suffering is a wonderful fertilizer to the roots of character.

~ Austin Phelps

"If we doctors threw all our medicines into the sea,
it would be that much better for our patients
and that much worse for the fishes."

~Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes, MD

Everyone wants to be appreciated,
so if you appreciate someone,
don't keep it a secret.

~ Mary Kay Ash

A smiling heart is the caretaker of friendship's garden.

Seeds of faith are always within us;
sometimes it takes a crisis
to nourish and encourage their growth.

~ Susan Taylor

Every sunset is also a sunrise.
It all depends on where you stand.

~ Karl Schmidt

In simple humility, let our gardener, God,
landscape you with the Word,
making a salvation-garden of your life.

~Message Bible

What is a weed?
A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

~Emerson

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.

~ Unknown

The garden that only has weeds pulled from it
but never a seed sown in it
still has no crop come harvest time.

For the Infinite has sowed His name in the heavens in burning stars, but on earth He has sowed His name in tender flowers.

~ Jean Paul Richter

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