Plant Your Garden

In this season when many of us are involved in gardening, I am sharing this poem. It is a reminder about our spiritual gardening as well.

Plant Your Garden Today ~ Author Unknown

First, plant three rows of peas.
Patience.
Promptness.
Prayer.

Next, plant three rows of squash.
Squash gossip.
Squash indifference.
Squash criticism.

Then, four rows of lettuce.
Let us obey the Lord.
Let us be loyal.
Let us be true to our obligations.
Let us be unselfish.

Finish with four rows of turnips.
Turn up when needed.
Turn up with a smile.
Turn up with a vision.
Turn up with determination.

~Ann Gantt, Ph.D. MSW, LCSW (counselor)