Spiritual Gardening

May Donaldson

As the days have lengthened from spring to summer, I spend many pleasant hours in my garden, and learn many a beautiful lesson therefrom; for are we not all gardeners setting in order this garden called the human mind, striving so to till and cultivate the soil that the fruits of Love may be made manifest? I am going to enumerate some of the lessons as they came to me, lessons of love and patience working through the outer plane to the inner, struggling up from darkness into light.

When we plant a seed in the ground we do not surely know that in due time it will blossom into a flower, but working in faith we continue to tend it until we see a result, and the title seed we have sown in faith stands before us outwardly manifest, and will remain perhaps for years to gladden those who come after us. Had we doubted, had we first asked for a sign before planting the little seed these results would never have been secured.

It is not enough to plant in faith, we must wait for results; endeavoring neither to hurry nor impede, but on the contrary doing all that we have to do patiently, rejoicing in every gain we make. We have all heard of the child's digging up the seed to see if it were growing, and we are equally tempted at times to be impatient with the slow growth of the good seed we have sown; we watch it anxiously and at times may be discouraged, ready to cease tending since it has shown no sign of ever blossoming; but one day, perhaps just the day when we are thinking least about it, the delicate leaves shoot forth, and soon the fair flower springs into being.

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