When I went into the garden this morning, I saw promises.....promises of good things to come......
this bright yellow flower is the promise of a squash...........
these green tomatoes are the promise of red ripe tomatoes in the very near future.....
the promise of a zinnia flower.....
and I hope it is the green and red ones I had last year....
the promise of cucumbers
the promise of a new daylily
a seed pod
I did the hybridizing
Promises bring HOPE......we need hope to live a healthy life..
Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
that is a scary thought..that without hope, we are not healthy...and we are living in a world that has a lot of hopelessness in it...a LOT..
As a gardener, I have trained myself to look for the little promises of things to come..the good things....a HOPE that keeps me going..keeps me pushing forward even when things are hard or don't seem to be working in my favor.....I look for something with promise..with hope...
sometimes something comes along and starts eating away at our promises......
then we have a choice
we can sit back and watch it erode our hope...
or
we can pick it off and sqush it under our feet
this little caterpillar is now history..he did a little damage, but not as much as he could have if I had left it alone....I took action and killed him before he could kill this plant...
no victim mentality here.
Hope is a very important thing to have..without it life seems purposeless....guard your heart where hope lives..
we get our hope from God...He is our hope...and our promises..
there is always something that will make hope arise in our heart.. if we look for it and learn to recognize the little promises in our everyday life....
just like this morning, I spotted the squash bloom as soon as I opened the garden gate....and hope arose....the promise of yellow squash is real....all of these promises are...
don't let a caterpillar just eat up your plant...get him off and sqush him dead...it is your choice..
make a good one that keeps the hope in your heart alive...
thank you for stopping by today
I hope to see you again soon
Mona
