Good Morning Garden

Sit down quietly where you are not likely to be disturbed. Relax the body – and begin to think about yourself. Every time your thoughts wander to something higher, bring it back gently but relentlessly.

Think about the past. Think over all the mistakes you have made, going right back to childhood. Think over all the opportunities you have missed and the time you have wasted. Especially think of all the occasions upon which you have been badly treated.

Think about your body and wonder if your age or your job or the climate isn’t beginning to tell. See if you cannot discover a pain or an ache somewhere.

Think about finances and if they are going well now, insist that this is probably too good to last.

In any case, think about yourself, that is the main point, and if you will keep this up faithfully for fifteen or twenty minutes, there can be no doubt about the result.

Seest a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than him (Proverbs 26:12)

Singer Bono of the rock band U2 sings “Now your stuck in a moment, and you can’t get out of it”. That unhappy situation describes many of us who are captured by past mistakes, current weakness or despair regarding the future. While there are many ways to get stuck in a moment, the way out is always clear. The path begins with honesty about that which drags us down. The past mistakes, the current failures that, along with fear and trepidation about the future, are things about which we must make an honest accounting. Then, we must accept forgiveness for these things and put them behind us. Finally, we must turn away from ourselves as the problem and as the solution. We alone can not overcome that which plagues us or turn away from that moment in which we are stuck.

When we focus on God as our source of forgiveness, help and guidance, then we are on the right path guided by the Holy Spirit. Then we must turn our attention to all our blessings and to doing that which God would have us do. Then we can envision, enter and live in the Eden that God gave us here. The fact is gentle spirits, that we can not do this alone or on our own. “For we have all sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God.”

So, when we get up off that couch, quit kicking ourselves and thinking about what we did wrong and how we are destined to mess things up again, then we are moving in the right direction. If we then turn to God and follow his will instead of our own,”we will be lifted up as on wings of eagles, we will run and not be faint”, “we will be able to do all things through Christ who strengthens us”. This is how to begin down the path of happiness.

Finding the path daily,
Z gardener