Article July 13, 1992 Issue

Weeding

One of the most important things we can do is to keep our mental "gardens" free of ungodlike thoughts and cultivate right thinking.

Beverly Wallace Lydiard

Once someone asked me how a gardener tells the difference between weeds and plants. My reply was that anything the gardener does not want growing in the garden is a weed. In other words, the definition of a weed depends on the outlook of the gardener!

There's an obvious correlation between weeding a garden and keeping our own thought free from unwelcome intrusions. Sometimes, when things are going well, the good, constructive thoughts predominate. At other times wrong thoughts take hold and crowd out everything else.

In terms of our mental "gardens," the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Philippians tells us very specifically the kind of thoughts we need to cultivate: "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."

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