The Prayer Garden

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The Prayer Garden

 

By Donald Mecham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer is our most precious thoughts, our most creative ideas. A garden on the other hand is a place where material things are manifested and allowed to grow. A Prayer Garden, be it in your mind while you are tilling the soil, or an imaginary one, as you create your images of the natural beauty that come to your mind. To find it we have only to quiet our mind and prayerfully go within and allow our thinking to flow with that of the Universe. Through this process our ideals are born and enriched. It is these Ideals that make up the foundation for our life.Symbolically a Prayer Garden represents the many aspects of our life for good, including the way we help others. The challenges, the anticipations, of what we would like to manifest are always a happy one. In going through the lesson of life, it is vital to keep a prayer attitude alive for our best understanding, learning until the lesson or lessons are completed. Priority choices are important in choosing what you wish to manifest. First comes the thought or picture in your mind. Next! What were we doing when the thought came to us? Should we act on that thought? It is here where we need to start making choices, knowing these choices will determining our destiny. Balance is most important for serenity. In our learning process it is sometimes necessary to be out of balance at times, possibly going to the ultimate extremes, depending on the chosen lesson. As we are learning, our emotional and physical balance gradually comes back to us as we come to a completion of our lesson. If we seem to never have a balance, it could be that we are not willing to accept what our lesson is or we have a multitude of lessons we are attempting to learn at the same time. In any garden, seeds or plants will grow better if planted with a prayer from the heart. Our loving caring attention is what does it best. Likewise when we give to the world the best that we have the best will come back to us. It is the Natural Law of the Universe. It will do us well to plan our garden carefully. The Laws of Nature will not be broken. In the Universal structure, any manifestation into the Physical Realm is guided or governed by the Divine Natural Universal Laws of our Universe. What we take from the Universal Substance, we enhance by adding our own creativity as we progress. In the oneness of it all, this is the way we connect and are connected to Our Universe. We learn by observing others, and how they live their lives. As they are examples for those who wish to follow them, we should remember we are probably an example for others too. A prayerful heart is a thankful heart. Our Spiritual dedication to our garden can be measured by asking ourselves the following questions. What have we seen or been in manifesting our garden? Who are we and what do we see now? How much have we progressed? How can it be measured? There are several spiritual yardsticks or tools to use. The first perhaps is to remember that everyone is not working on the same lesson. The second perhaps depends on how much background knowledge we already have on what we are learning. The third is to consider the difficulty or challenge it is for ourselves in comparison to how sincere we are in finding solutions to the lesson or lessons. We would find as we prayerfully tend our garden, we pulled out the old weeds, discarded the old ideas or ideals, and replace them with new plantings or ideals. In using The Divine Principles the weeds will be replaced with Roses, because of your prayerful thoughts. What does your Prayer Garden, your Life, look and feel like today? Do you like what you are now? Are you happy with your progress and the direction it is going? If not, it is good to remember, you are the only one who can change it for the better. Prayerfully Loving ourselves is the answer.

___ -- ! Jai Gurudev !