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🌿 Summary / Episode Description
In this gentle transition between seasons, Sanda invites you into a November Garden Examen — a quiet, 5-pillar reflection for your soil and your soul.
While the garden rests (at least in theory), there’s still life stirring under the South Texas sky — peas and collards stretching, onions thickening, sage standing strong. Beneath it all, the Gardener is preparing the way for new birth.
Through the five pillars — Remember, Release, Restore, Root, and Rejoice — Sanda helps you look back with gratitude, let go with grace, and lean forward with vision. This episode is both a sacred pause and a soft preparation for what’s coming next: Advent in the Garden, a 25-day devotional experience of hope, peace, joy, and love.
Come walk the garden paths of reflection, rest, and renewal. The year may be closing, but God’s work in you is just beginning.
🪴 Episode Highlights
Psalm 65:9–11 — “You crown the year with Your bounty.”
The quiet tension between rest and readiness
What the South Texas garden teaches about faith that keeps working underground
How to practice a personal “Garden Examen” before Advent begins
Why work can be a form of holy rest when done with vision and grace
Five Pillars for your November Reset:
🌾 Remember | Look back with gratitude
🌾 Release | Let go of what’s done
🌾 Restore | Let God refresh the ground
🌾 Root | Reconnect with the Source
🌾 Rejoice | Celebrate the faithfulness
🌸 Rooted Practice Challenge
1️⃣ Remember — Write one gratitude line for every month of this year.
2️⃣ Release — Compost one plant, one worry, or one perfectionist thought.
3️⃣ Restore — Take one true Sabbath hour outdoors.
4️⃣ Root — Write your 2026 “Vision & Values” page in your journal.
5️⃣ Rejoice — Light a garden candle and thank God aloud for sustaining you.
🌟 Coming Soon: Advent in the Garden
Beginning December 1, join Sanda for a 25-day devotional experience that weaves daily videos, Scripture reflections, and simple garden-inspired practices around the four themes of Advent: Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love.
Each day will help you slow down, notice beauty, and rediscover God’s gentle presence in your own backyard.
🌿 Sign up to the email list to be the first one to get the regisration link! Subscribers get a FREE Yearly Garden Calendar!
🎁 Includes a free “Day One” sample download when you join!
🌾 Key Quote from the Episode
“Even rest, for a gardener, is never idle; it’s intention in disguise. Work is an essential part of rest when the heart stays in rhythm with the Creator.”
🙏 Closing Prayer
“Lord of the Harvest, teach us to remember Your mercy,
release what’s finished without fear,
and let every plan we draw and every bed we widen
be an act of worship — a vision written plainly in faith.”
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By Sanda Valcu🌿 Summary / Episode Description
In this gentle transition between seasons, Sanda invites you into a November Garden Examen — a quiet, 5-pillar reflection for your soil and your soul.
While the garden rests (at least in theory), there’s still life stirring under the South Texas sky — peas and collards stretching, onions thickening, sage standing strong. Beneath it all, the Gardener is preparing the way for new birth.
Through the five pillars — Remember, Release, Restore, Root, and Rejoice — Sanda helps you look back with gratitude, let go with grace, and lean forward with vision. This episode is both a sacred pause and a soft preparation for what’s coming next: Advent in the Garden, a 25-day devotional experience of hope, peace, joy, and love.
Come walk the garden paths of reflection, rest, and renewal. The year may be closing, but God’s work in you is just beginning.
🪴 Episode Highlights
Psalm 65:9–11 — “You crown the year with Your bounty.”
The quiet tension between rest and readiness
What the South Texas garden teaches about faith that keeps working underground
How to practice a personal “Garden Examen” before Advent begins
Why work can be a form of holy rest when done with vision and grace
Five Pillars for your November Reset:
🌾 Remember | Look back with gratitude
🌾 Release | Let go of what’s done
🌾 Restore | Let God refresh the ground
🌾 Root | Reconnect with the Source
🌾 Rejoice | Celebrate the faithfulness
🌸 Rooted Practice Challenge
1️⃣ Remember — Write one gratitude line for every month of this year.
2️⃣ Release — Compost one plant, one worry, or one perfectionist thought.
3️⃣ Restore — Take one true Sabbath hour outdoors.
4️⃣ Root — Write your 2026 “Vision & Values” page in your journal.
5️⃣ Rejoice — Light a garden candle and thank God aloud for sustaining you.
🌟 Coming Soon: Advent in the Garden
Beginning December 1, join Sanda for a 25-day devotional experience that weaves daily videos, Scripture reflections, and simple garden-inspired practices around the four themes of Advent: Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love.
Each day will help you slow down, notice beauty, and rediscover God’s gentle presence in your own backyard.
🌿 Sign up to the email list to be the first one to get the regisration link! Subscribers get a FREE Yearly Garden Calendar!
🎁 Includes a free “Day One” sample download when you join!
🌾 Key Quote from the Episode
“Even rest, for a gardener, is never idle; it’s intention in disguise. Work is an essential part of rest when the heart stays in rhythm with the Creator.”
🙏 Closing Prayer
“Lord of the Harvest, teach us to remember Your mercy,
release what’s finished without fear,
and let every plan we draw and every bed we widen
be an act of worship — a vision written plainly in faith.”