Darshän Beauty

Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Everyone Can Garden

Every spring here in the North East, I begin to get edgy waiting for the warmer weather to come. My eldest daughter cannot for the life of her understand my insatiable yearning to dig my fingers into cold wet soil filled with plump earthworms and begin the laborious task of cultivating my next garden. But it is what my soul lives for every year.

I tell my friends that gardening is my church in many ways. It is one of the ways that my soul chooses to express my connection with the Earth that I am privileged to share with all humans. A gardener is like an artist creating a masterpiece using Mother Nature as her canvas.

I have noticed over the years that it is the planting time that brings me the most thrills. The crafting and arranging of the different flowers and vegetables gives me the most satisfaction. You would think it would be the other way around, and probably is for many gardeners, but I love the act of planting rows of seeds and watching which seeds open up and spring forth towards the sun. Sometimes all of the seeds come up, but other times a few come out much later, after I have assumed that they would not. These little seedlings are like finding a missed Christmas present tucked under the Christmas tree later on Christmas Day, after all of the wrapping paper and ribbons were cleaned away.

The SIMPLE TRUTH is that everyone can plant a garden. Everyone can plant seeds, but they do not have to be seeds of flowers or vegetables. They can be seeds of hope or seeds of love. They can be seeds of inspiration or seeds of ingenuity. Some seeds may grow immediately, right before our eyes, giving us instant satisfaction. But some seeds will lie dormant waiting to burst forth as a truth, or an action, or an idea long after we walk away.

Planting seeds of compassion or inspiration is planting trust in that which is greater than all of us but cannot be seen, be it called the Universe, faith, God, Gaia, or the Cosmos. It does not matter what results we see right away. Our mission as gardeners on Earth is to plant the potential for divine knowing to grow. How and when it happens is up to celestial timing and our success is only contingent on the desire to be a part of the evolution. What seeds can you plant today?

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