Good Morning Garden

Don’t be a grave robber. Let corpses alone. In due course nature disposes of such remains, if they are left undisturbed. Every time you dig up an old grievance or an old mistake by rehearsing it in your mind or, still worse, by telling someone else about it, you are simply ripping open a grave – and you know what you may expect to find.

Live the present. Prepare intelligently for the future – and let the past alone. This is what Jesus meant when he said,… “ let the dead bury the dead. (Matthew 8:22).

Make a law for yourself today that you are not going to touch mentally any negative thing that has happened up to the present moment – and keep that law. Life is too precious for grave robbing. The past is past – liquidate it. If a negative memory comes into your mind, cremate it with the right thought (the fire of Love) and forget it.

How much better our lives would be if we followed this advice. How much emotional baggage we could jettison if we let go of the moving van full of resentments and hurts that we pull around behind us wherever we go. How free we would be to enjoy the beauty and blessings around us if not viewed through the prism of past wrongs. As an Easter promise to ourselves and others, let us leave the dead and decaying past in the grave and live into the new and living present, forgiven and restored to our God-given place in the garden.

Looking forward,
Stan

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Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you… Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid (John 14:27).

This true, interior soul-peace was known to the mystics as serenity, and they are never tired of telling us that serenity is the grand passport to the Presence of God—the sea as smooth as glass that is round about the Great White Throne. This is not to say that one cannot tackle even the most serious difficulties by prayer without having any serenity at all. But before you can make any true spiritual progress you must achieve serenity; and it is that fundamental tranquility of soul that Jesus refers to by the word peace—the peace that passes all human understanding.

The Peacemakers are those who bring about this peace in their own souls; they surmount limitation and become actually, not merely potentially, the children of God. This condition of mind is the objective at which Jesus aims.

Of course, to be a peacemaker in the usual sense of composing the quarrels of other people is an excellent thing; but, as all practical people know, an excessively difficult role to fill. But once you understand the power of prayer, you will be able to heal many quarrels in the true way; probably without speaking at all. The silent thought of the All-Power of Love and Wisdom will cause trouble to melt away almost imperceptibly. You will become a peacemaker.

When our hearts are troubled, and when we are afraid, peace can seem like a mirage or a dream that melts away under the flames of fear or the heartbreak of burdens seemingly to great to bear. Yet, just as the sun shines above each storm in our lives, God’s love is always there, shining down. The key is to fully realize that and live as if that sun is shining on our faces, even as the winds howl, the torrents fall and the darkness fills us with fear and helplessness.

Seeking peace within,
Z gardener

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