For the garden of your daily living:
Plant three rows of peas
1. Peace of mind
2. Peace of heart
3. Peace of soul
Plant four rows of squash
1. Squash gossip
2. Squash indifference
3. Squash grumbling
4. Squash selfishness
Plant four rows of lettuce
1. Lettuce be faithful
2. Lettuce be kind
3. Lettuce be patient
4. Lettuce really love one another
No garden is complete without turnips
1. Turnip for meetings
2. Turnip for service
3. Turnip to help one another
To conclude our garden we must have thyme
1. Thyme for each other
2. Thyme for family
3. Thyme for friends
Water freely with patience and cultivate with love.
There is much fruit in your garden because you reap what you sow.
I love this. We garden at our church in Port Townsend. It has the best soil I’ve ever worked in. We give a lot of our produce to the Food Bank. The name of our garden is The Blessings Garden. We fertilize with gratitude.
Thank you.
Absolutely love this! Evan I so enjoy your inspiration everyday.
Ahaa what lovely ideas…..Planting good things in the garden of life is so very important to get a rich harvest.. We can never complain if the fruit in our garden is not as per our liking since as we sow, so shall we reap.
So come friends as Evan suggests :
1. If we sow Peace of Mind, Peace of Heart and Peace of Soul
the fruits will be a peaceful, happy and harmonious life.
2. If we sow: Squash gossip, Squash indifference, Squash grumbling and Squash selfishness.
the fruits will be loving, true and honest friends in our life.
3. If we sow:. Turnip for meetings, Turnip for service, Turnip to help one another
the fruits will be immense satisfaction in our life and a life worth living.
4. If we sow: Thyme for each other, Thyme for family, Thyme for friends
the fruits will be an overflow of love, gratitude and fun in your life
Life is like an echo – everything comes back….Lets ensure to give the world the best and the best will certainly come back.
Thank you Evan! This truly is “sage” advice that can’t be “beet”! Thanks again! 🙂
Beautiful ! Thank you, everyone for fertilizing our blossoming !
That is lovely… thank you so much for sharing this !!!
Really love this! Just a-maize-ing.
LOVE THIS!! Just shared this on my Facebook page and will print to hang on the wall. Thanks, Evan!
Thank you Evan and All – blessings on the harvest.
And don’t forget the importance of good soil. “But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.” (Luke 8:15, NIV)
And water. “… and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. (Isa 58:11, ESV)
We are the garden, and God the master Gardener!
Your house has many colors
Your mind has many facets
Your cats looking out the window
Your soul’s looking out your eyes
You water the plants to grow
You help your friends in growth
You know growing
You know loving
One waters the other
Thanks Evan. Reminded me of a hymn by E.W.D.:
A grateful heart a garden is,
Where there is always room
For every lovely, Godlike grace
To come to perfect bloom.
A grateful heart a fortress is,
A stanch and rugged tower,
Where God’s omnipotence, revealed,
Girds man with mighty power.
A grateful heart a temple is,
A shrine so pure and white,
Where angels of His presence keep
Calm watch by day or night.
Grant then, dear Father-Mother, God,
Whatever else befall,
This largess of a grateful heart
That loves and blesses all.
Hymn on page 3 of the Christian Science hymnal
My heart is Full of Love and gratitude for EVERYONE
caydee kittredge
What a wonderful harvest with the good seeds that we plant. Isn’t it amazing how simple little seeds can produce such beautiful and productive plants when nurtured and cared for. And with flower gardens, I have heard the saying, “Friends are the flowers in the garden of life”. I appreciate all of you flowers in this garden of spiritual thoughts here. : )
Thank you Carol, thats a very lovely thought .
Thank you Evan for that with spiritual richness overflowing SpiritView of today!
“Lettuce us feel the divine of Spirit bringing us into newness of life…..”
oops, the divine “energy” of Spirit – this is our theme for Annual Meeting this Year!
What a Beautiful Bouquet we all are!!
Good Work, God!
Weed out any undesirables
Fruitful, always fruitful…
Thank you Evan and all!
A keeper!!! Yours is a keeper too Nergish. Brian and Marion loved your with-the-theme replies!
Evan, I do not understand the planting of squash – with the 4 negative expressions.
Or do I understand it wrong?
Hi Uta,
Another definition of squash in English is to crush or squeeze (something) with force so that it becomes flat, soft, or out of shape.
One church had First “Weeders” and Second “Weeders.”
Thanks for this excellent planting guide.
Ha ha! Love it…First Weeders and Second Weeders!
“There is enduring wit and vivacity amongst God’s people.” MBE
Gardening expert Mark Cullen writes … “Gardeners are many things, and require better recognition as sowers of hope and
harvesters of a better quality of life.”
I dedicate this poem to you Evan, our master gardener, and your witty, humorous and vivacious (thanks to SpiritViewFan) bunch:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/issues/2014/6/116-23/the-garden-of-his-planting
Special thanks to Brian, Marion, Bevi and Patti – I am still smiling! :)-