Friday, November 28, 2008

Nature Should Be Nurtured

Nature Should Be Nurtured
Category:
Goals, Plans, Hopes

God put everything we need in place before He created us.  In the beginning, we were created to tend a garden, to conceive and raise children, and to walk with God.

In everything we have to do on earth, the challenge is to find what is best, and to nurture that.

Gardening, raising children, walking with God -- the way to be most successful in life on earth is the same for all three.

Find what is beautiful, and nurture it.  It is perfectly fine to move things around -- just do so carefully, and at the proper time for each thing.  Keep the soil well-fed and aerated.  Pull the weeds when the weeds are young and tender and when the soil around them is soft.  (They come out easily then.)  Enjoy, celebrate, and praise.

That's life in a nutshell. 

6 comments:

  1. And if we do these things life is wonderful sure enough .

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  2. Sounds like "life in a nutshell" is good!!! Who would not think that was wonderful??? Tending a garden, raising children, walking with God... the ways things should be.

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  3. Cultivate love and kindness in your garden and you will always be rewarded with a fruitful harvest.

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  4. My garden was a bit neglected this summer. I didn't weed enough or even feed enough but it'll work doubly hard next spring and repair the damage that's been done. It's not hopeless.

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  5. Don't forget to CELEBRATE! The beautiful things need to be :
    photographed
    brought into the house in lovely vases
    or in the case of children -- BLESSED by your words
    That's what I meant in my previous post when I wrote http://ranikaye.multiply.com/journal/item/157/What_this_younger_generation_needs_is

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