Good Morning Garden

Give us this day our daily bread (Matthew 6:11).

Because we are the children of a loving Father, we are entitled to expect that God will provide us with everything we need. If we do so expect, in faith and understanding, we shall never look in vain.

It is the will of God that we should all lead healthy, happy lives, full of joyous experience; that we should develop freely and steadily. To this end we require such things as food, clothing, shelter, means of travel, books, and so on; above all, we require freedom. In the Prayer all these things are included under the heading of bread; that is to say, not merely food in general, but all things required for a healthy, free, and harmonious life. But in order to obtain these things we have to claim them, and we have to recognize God alone as the source and fountainhead of all our good. Lack of any kind is always traceable to the fact that we have been seeking our supply from some secondary source, instead of from God himself, the author and giver of life.

When we look to God for all our needs, our guidance and our strength, all the things we need for our best good will find us. We will not have to struggle to find them, run from pillar to post to gather them or fight to keep them. Just as Eden was given to us as a gift, it will be reopened to us as an invitation from God. Not by our will, but by the Father’s. To live in our Eden all we need to do is ask God for the key and then follow him like an obedient child.

Following the leader,
Z gardener