What goes around comes around

Tending the garden of the heart - Day 50

I'm sure you're familiar with the saying, "What goes around comes around." And I'm sure you've heard the phrase, "Whatever you give will come back to you." What about this one? "What you sow, that will you reap."

These words are so powerful and they are effective directions to the way we should live our lives. Whatever you do in thought, word or deed, are seeds sown and if you are always conscious of this fact you'd be more careful of your thoughts, your words and your actions.

Let's look at this from the view point of a circle - what goes around comes around. We'll imagine five points on the circle and label each one A, B, C, D and E, representing each seed you've sown. A = good deed, B = nice words, C = positive thought, D = good deed, E = nice words, and back to A = good deed.

By the time you get back to A, perhaps over a period of time, the good deed seed would have germinated, grown and began to bear fruit, ripe for your picking. The same is for the other seeds you've sown. Keep in mind, what you reap may not come back to you from the same person to whom you've done the good deed, but the seed has been sown in the soil of the universe and the fruit of that seed, when it reaches maturity, will be yours to enjoy.

If you add in the example bad deeds, guess what? They, too, will also grow as well, unless you consciously replace those bad seeds with good. Pull up those weeds you've allowed to grow and replace them with good. A positive thought, words or deeds are much more powerful than a negative one.

Be consciously aware of the seeds you sow that you will rejoice when harvest time comes.

Changing Inside Out Now! Tending the garden of the heart - Day 2

Seeds of the heart

The familiar proverb says, "Whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap."

You never sow marigold seeds and expect roses to bloom. Nor do you sow green pepper seeds and expect a harvest of cucumbers.

It is the law of nature - sowing and reaping. Yet, why would you expect to fill your life with things that would not produce the results you're looking for and wonder why your life is a mess.

If you're hanging around friends who are not going in a positive direction, doing what they're doing, engaging in destructive conversation and negative talk, how is that enhancing your life? Whatever you're doing or whoever you're hanging around should be adding to your life; a light leading you down a better path.

Evaluate what's entering your heart; the music you listen to, the television shows you watch, the conversations you're engaged in, the friends you keep. Are they bringing value to your life?

What fruit do you expect to reap? Do not allow weeds to grow in the garden of your heart, because they will rob you of your precious crop. Instead of a bumper crop your harvest will be meager. Instead of positive growth, you would have sacrificed your precious gift in exchange for junk.

Sow seeds of love, kindness, goodness in your heart. Sow them in abundance and when your harvest season has come you will be blessed more than you can imagine.