{"id":5063,"date":"2018-09-17T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=5063"},"modified":"2018-09-16T21:06:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T03:06:31","slug":"song-001-3-4-2-3-3-2-2-2-4-2-3-2-5-7-6-3-2-3-2-3-2-7-2-13-14-2-5-2-6-7-2-7-5-7-7-7-7-2-6-7-2-6-8-7-7-2-2-4-3-4-13-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=5063","title":{"rendered":"Song 407 – Cultivate Our Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”]
\"\"<\/a><\/div><\/div>[nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” text=”Song 407 – Cultivate Our Garden”][vc_column_text]\n\nhttps:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_407_180916_Garden.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n[\/vc_column_text][nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” url=”https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_407_180916_Garden.m4a” text=”Download Audio File” margin_top=”10″][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” url=”https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_407_180916_Clutivate_Our_Garden.pdf” text=”Download Guitar Chords”][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][vc_column_text]I remember being fascinated with Voltaire\u2019s Candide when I was talking a philosophy class at the University of Utah. Think about adding the message of Candide to the words I was often told when growing up, \u201cThis red dirt gets in your blood, and you have to come back home.\u201d Is there any question why this is Andrea and my third year to have a garden in back of Uncle Willis\u2019 and Aunt Shirley\u2019s (Grandma Nelson\u2019s) house on the farm? The summary on the last page of the book says it all:<\/p>\n

\u201cI also know,\u201d said Candide, \u201cthat we must cultivate our garden.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re right,\u201d said Pangloss, \u201cbecause when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there \u2018to dress it and to keep it,\u2019 that is, to work; which proves that man was not born to be idle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s work without theorizing,\u201d said Martin; \u201cit\u2019s the only way to make life bearable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The whole group entered into this commendable plan, and each began to exercise his own talents. The little farm yielded abundant crops. Cunegonde was very ugly, it is true, but she soon became an excellent pastry cook. Paquette embroidered, and the old woman took care of the linen. Everyone made himself useful, even Brother Girofl\u00e9e: he was a good carpenter, and he even became an honest man.<\/p>\n

Pangloss sometimes said to Candide, \u201cAll events are interconnected in this best of all possible worlds, for if you hadn\u2019t been driven from a beautiful castle with hard kicks in the behind because of your love for Lady Cunegonde, if you hadn\u2019t been seized by the Inquisition, if you hadn\u2019t wandered over America on foot, if you hadn\u2019t thrust your sword through the baron, and if you hadn\u2019t lost all your sheep from the land of Eldorado, you wouldn\u2019t be here eating candied citrons and pistachio nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell said,\u201d replied Candide, \u201cbut we must cultivate our garden.\u201d<\/p>\n

Candide by Voltaire, Bantam Books, 1988, page 120.<\/p>\n

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