When I worked on the family farm, a lesson dad taught me about growing crops is, that if you keep your crop healthy, strong and growing vigorously, there is much less chance of weeds and disease taking over.

A healthy plant resists disease and a healthy crop quickly covers the soil with foilage that blocks sunlight from getting to the ground and encouraging weed seeds to sprout.

I’ve found the same rule applies to living a happy healthy life. The healthier our “crop of thoughts,” the healthier we stay.

Good thoughts keep the bad ones out. Healthy thoughts exclude disease-producing beliefs. A consciousness of Love is not predisposed to fear. Trust in God annihilates worry, anxiety and tension.

It takes work to demonstrate a spiritually minded point of view. Prayer is required. Time-out with God is necessary just like it takes time to go out to your garden and weed to protect the budding new crop of vegetables or flowers. You can’t skip the job and expect it to be done. But the effort is worth the reward! It keeps emerging weeds out and disease away.

“Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them. It is plain that nothing can be added to the mind already full. There is no door through which evil can enter, and no space for evil to fill in a mind filled with goodness. Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited.” Mary Baker Eddy