A year with many seeds planted and much joyful gratitiude for all the contributitions.

It is with so much gratitude I share the celebration of The Luminous Garden project’s first birthday with you all.  The idea for the garden came in a flash in spring 2007 and on December 19th 2007 it was launched on to the web. The Garden mission was initially 2 fold; encourage everyone to create, share and empower their vision for a better world and to honor the voices of Native Americans who for centuries have been speaking out about the Earth as a living being and the need to maintain a respectful balanced relationship with her and all life in the cosmos.

 Looking back it is easy to see how the project was supported by the universe.  Perry Finkelstein of World Harmony Unlimited and Pro Video Productions readily agreed to use his film and other talents to bring the video messages to you all. Perry then suggested David Greenberg of Success by Designs to actually bring the vision into reality. David along with his creative web building skills is a serious organic gardener. There couldn’t have been a better choice for building the cyber garden than David who balances his time between the computer and nature.  I thank both these men for all their assistance and continued contributions. They have great respect for the natural world and demonstrate how one can honor the Earth and work in the modern technical world.

I feel so certain the Garden is blessed, everyone I approached and explained the mission of the site to, that it would be offered freely for anyone in the world seeking it out, agreed to share what they could with the global community. With deep gratitude I thank them for their contributions and all who have shared their words and music and those too whose contributions are still in the wings soon to be added.  A very heartfelt thank you to; Julia Greene, Mike Bastine, Sonja Greene, Archie Bomberry, Joseph Fire Crow, Danny Beaton, Tom Porter, Edna Gordon, Frank Austin Many Horses and David Greene.

As the Garden began to grow some very special women began to tend it with love and prayers, thank you Virginia, Essence and Kathleen, for all your energies supporting the seed prayers offered by so many.

The year progressed and we added a Global Gardeners blog, where anyone with ideas or messages for a better world can share and comment. We have some regular bloggers now and their contributions are much appreciated. Come and visit and leave your message too. This next year will see the addition of a separate web page for written messages from Indigenous peoples.

It is ever becoming so clear we are multidimensional beings in a multidimensional universe. On one of the garden pages it is suggested as you plant your vision seed in the Luminous Garden, plant it in you heart, direct it to a tree or plant on the Earth and of course turn it over to the Creator. So with this in mind I wish to share with you another layer of the Garden will be added this spring. For every vision and prayer seed planted in the Luminous Garden a tree will be planted some where on our dear Mother Earth.  In the next month or so the details will be completed and posted for you all.

As we create and release our visions for a better world we can assist to bring them into fruition by actions.  Every action however small will impact the whole, so please take time to dream your vision for a better world, plant the seed in your heart, plant it here for others to see as perhaps it will be something someone can take action on.

I am grateful to all of you who visit this Garden, my heart is happy.  I am so thankful for my husband and his support and of course thankful to the Great Mystery Person.

In Oneness and Light, Namaste, Rainy