It isn’t always easy to see the fruits of our labor when we look at a barren tree branch in the early spring. It is hard to see the lush fruits perfectly formed waiting to be plucked and eaten.
In the vast landscape of our life experience we can be similarly challenged. Our unimagined frontiers born of deep desire, are often chaste with the attitude of impatience and belief in the worldly measurements of time and space. There is simply not enough time nor space it seems, to afford the growth of what we value and want most in our lives.
As a relatively new resident to my area, I am picking up the ‘countrified’ lingo rather quickly, or so I tell myself! For instance, if someone came here from the big city for a day of R & R and stopped me to ask: “Do you have bears around?” Well I would, without hesitation retort: “Why yes ma’am we do, but they won’t bother you unless you smell like food.”
As an intelligent species we are prone to deduce our best advantage. In attaining ‘quality existence’ we therefore often base ours upon what seeds others are planting and in what (whose) soil they are being planted. We assess who we are and how we are doing by the ‘bear principle’ – we’ll only been seen if we are motivated by the ‘smell’ of another. In part, I noticed that we have become desensitized by the fragrance of our own tendency of thoughts, and become impatient with the magnificent garden planted within us, the day we were born to this earth. And no matter how we try and convince ourselves otherwise, our logical mind tells us that we are to look at what has grown in our lives and know those tangible results as the sole measure of our good. Using logic alone our vision dims and we are left looking for the ripened fruit in the result of what has gone before, rather than finding it in the joyful process of consciously seeding new thoughts.
Scientifically and spiritually speaking, all seeds when left undisturbed bear forth the fullness of their inherent nature. When we plant a tulip we get a tulip, not a rose. When we seed thoughts into the fertile soil of our imagination, temper them with clarity, inspire them with heartfelt desire and energize them through intention, we can expect to realize the form of our belief. However, should we be operating from the ‘bear principle’, we might very well be digging up our seed thoughts before they have completed the process of natural growth – in their own natural time. I know this one well! I have come to plant many ‘half-baked’ gardens in my time!
As our season turns from the seeming unrelenting harshness of winter’s definitive voice, let’s take all the ‘time’ we desire to plant new seed thoughts in our Gardens. Seeing the vitality of life in the barren branches and the snow covered rosehip stalks that appear unresponsive to the sun helps me to remember that with us like the fruit tree, is the seed of perfection. An invisible intelligence that knows exactly how to create in tandem with our belief of what is possible by means of us.
How does your garden grow? Hoe, Hoe, Hoe!
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