How does your garden grow?

Spring daffodil shoots © K. Hall

Have you looked longingly and perhaps with a bit of jealousy at someone else’s garden?

I’m not talking about the green shoots and brown dirt kind here.

I’m referring to the life they are tending each day for themselves and their families Are you envious of the joy they cultivate at work? Dismissive of the loving relationship they’ve grown with their husband? Rensentful of their ability to shower themselves and others with their kind-hearted laughter?

While you probably do not have the same mix of abilities, skills and strengths of other women, you, too, have within you an incredible abundance, seeds of great and wonderful things.

It’s time to locate that forgotten packet of possibilities, pick it up, blow the dust off and follow the simple instructions on the back.

Prepare your ground with loving hands and an expectant heart.
Refresh the newly prepared beds with heaven’s dew.
Care for the tender shoots, giving them the nourishment they require.
Tend to your garden daily, for without your constant care, the new growth will wither on the vine.

The work can be taxing, and dirty, and every seed will not always bear fruit, but, in time, you will be rewarded with a bountiful harvest.

Share with me what you are doing with the seeds God has given you.