Be a Gardener of Love

Garden of Your Mind

What are you growing

in the garden of your mind –

what do you water

nourish, feed?

Do you plant seeds of forgiveness,

of love,

or do you fertilize weeds of anger

resentment, fear?

What are you growing

in the garden of your heart?

Do you allow sunshine to reach dark pain

in the corners of your heart –

Do you allow tears to wash it clean

and nourish it –

Or do you put up fences

to keep out the feelings?

Get on your knees

grow your own food

decide what it is you want in your soil.

Know what you are cultivating

what you are growing –

a lot can grow in the garden of your body

if you let it seed

nourish it

allow it

watch it grow.

Kerry Fantelli