Tending Your Garden

Tending Your Garden

Your mind is a garden.

Are you tending it?

Clear away dead leaves of old habits.

Pull up weeds of unhealthy relationships.

Enrich the soil with good words and thoughts.

Plants seeds of hope, peace, joy, and love.

Water with God’s word.

Let in the sunlight of truth.

Protect tender shoots of new ideas.

Day by day tend your garden.

Hope and love begin to sprout.

Green plants of new habits grow.

Healthy relationships bloom.

New ideas shoot up.

Spend time enjoying

the garden of your mind.

It is a beautiful place.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Take care of your garden

And keep out the weeds

Fill it with sunshine,

Kind words and kind deeds.

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Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed

to this world,

but be transformed

by the renewal of your mind.