The Garden

Today is the next day of your life

You have a choice

It can be good.

It can be interesting

It can be wonderful

Or you can cope with it or not

Just because it isn’t what you wanted

Doesn’t mean it’s not for you.

A beautiful garden begins in the dirt.

The destruction of what was previously there.

The stones are removed,

The grass pulled out

The weeds killed and removed.

This leaves a bare patch of ground.

Then the planner comes in.

He hears what the client wants.

He goes away, thinks, considers and returns with a plan.

Then the reconstruction starts.

Slowly, sometimes painfully, sometimes short, sometimes long.

The right people with the right skills come and do their bit.

Finally, after time, maybe years,

A beautiful garden is there for all to see and enjoy.

Is this not true of you?

The Master planner knows what is best for you.

Sometimes it feels like your life has been hit by a wrecking ball,

Sometimes all you see is bare ground.

But slowly over time, it changes

You learn to run to Him.

You seek His face.

You ask questions

Seek advice.

Slowly, sometimes very slowly

We learn He is the Master planner.

He knows where you should be planted.

What is best for you

So you can grow into who you are meant to be.

Still in His presence, and He (Jesus) will make

Your life is a beautiful garden that you and others can enjoy.

Let the Master grow you, water you, prune you

And help you to grow into a beautiful example of

What unconditional love can do in a life.

Beauty for ashes

Bare rocky ground becomes a garden.