My Vegetable Garden and My Inner Peace Garden

I decided in Feb that I was going to plant a garden again this year.   The raised bed is already in place, as small as it is, it will be perfect for a few tomato plants, squash and some herbs.   I bought the seeds and decided I would start from scratch, I have the perfect sunny window to put the seedlings in and watch them grow as winter ended.    I was so excited.  

Unfortunately the growth I hadn't expected was the weeds in the garden.  I had at one point decided that it was just too much work, the bed was a mess, the seedlings had a difficult growing season with not much sun and perhaps too much water so, I laid to rest the idea of having my garden.  That was until yesterday.  At the hardware store, buying other items, I decided to venture out into the garden area, next thing you know, my cart was full of herbs and plants.  I was once again on a mission.    

This morning, I spent over 2 hours pulling weeds from the garden, it was hot, I was sweaty and thought to myself, was this really the day to give up coffee?   Perhaps it was the perfect day because as I sat in the dirt, pulling weed after weed, clarity seemed to come with each weed I uprooted.  My life has been like this little garden, so covered in weeds that I felt like giving up, thinking the bad habits, bad attitudes, the low self esteem had taken deep root and I would never be able to pull the weeds of negativity.  Yet, like the garden today, I kept at it until I started to see the beautiful rich soil underneath, the root system  wasn't as deep as I had suspected, once I started pulling and digging, the easier it became to be rid of the weeds.  I too had to keep digging and pulling out my weeds, knowing that underneath was a beautiful soul waiting to have new beautiful things planted in it.  

Like the garden, we must work at it to keep the weeds of life at bay, we must never stop weeding our lives of negative self thoughts and lies.  We must fill ourselves with the weedkiller called truth, believe only what we know, not listening to the stories we tell ourselves.  I will continue to work in both my vegetable garden and my inner garden, both will produce nutritious food for a healthy, Beautiful Soul, me!