YOUR GARDEN-ok

Your mind is like a garden:
Whatever you plant will grow.
Your thoughts are seeds you’re planting:
They produce, each after it’s kind.
And you, just like a gardener,
Can choose which seeds you’ll plant.
And by the choice of seeds you sow,
You choose the harvest you will reap.
So don’t plant seeds of lack or fear,
Disease, discord, or doubt.
Plant, instead, the seeds you want;
Then things you want will sprout.
This gift of choice is given to all,
And not to just a few.
The harvest, friend, is in your hands:
The crop depends on you.
So take this power which you’ve been given,
And use it every day,
To gain from life the good you want,
For you have found the way.

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 it’s 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 it’s own.

Pat Hedden