THIS
IS MY FATHER'S WORLD - MIDI
THE GARDEN OF MY HEART
One day while thinking about
my garden, God
showed me how I could think
about my soul in a different way.
As a flower garden!
He said we could Imagine
that when we were baptized,
God gave us this beautiful
garden (our baptized soul).
It is a beautiful garden
with every kind of flower that He envisions for us. He is giving
us this garden to tend to
and we are free to do whatever
we want with our garden.
When we die, we present
to God
our garden that He first
gave to us.
I thought about everything
that
it takes to make a beautiful
garden
and how much deliberate
effort it takes
to keep the garden free
of weeds and the flowers blooming.
A garden needs sunshine,
which I see is God and his love for us.
A garden needs water,
which I see is the life-giving grace that he freely gives to us.
In order to have strong
and beautiful flowers and plants,
fertilizer is needed to
feed and nourish the soil and the flowers.
In order for a garden to
do well,
the soil needs to be tilled
and broken up.
I see this as the struggles
and problems we have in our life.
God lets things happen in
our life in order to soften and nourish the ground (our soul) so that the
flowers
can have a perfect
environment to grow.
By cooperating with the
grace that
God gives us and being open
to His will,
we are allowing the seeds
that He has sown for us to grow.
Of course a garden has weeds
that always seem to pop up.
Unless we keep control of
these weeds they can overtake our garden and choke out all the flowers
that were thriving.
I see the weeds as
the sin and vice that can be in our lives and that can keep us from being
more closely united to God.
We are free to ignore or
pay attention to OUR personal
gift from God.
God planted the flowers
and it’s up to us to nourish
and tend our garden.
Finally I see that WE never
planted the flowers
and the plants in our garden.
Our garden is perfectly
suited for
us according to Gods eternal
plan.
God planted the flowers
and it’s
up to us to nourish and
tend our garden so that everything God has planned for us can truly be,
and that at the end of our
life our garden will be
most pleasing to our Lord.
~Author Unknown but to God~
  
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