How To Plant Your Garden

How To Plant Your Garden

First, you Come to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses....



FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING,


PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS:

1. Peace of mind
2. Peace of heart
3. Peace of soul


PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH:

1. Squash gossip
2. Squash indifference
3. Squash grumbling
4. Squash selfishness


PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE:

1. Lettuce be faithful
2. Lettuce be kind
3. Lettuce be patient
4. Lettuce really love one another


NO GARDEN IS WITHOUT TURNIPS:

1. Turnip for meetings
2. Turnip for service
3. Turnip to help one another


TO CONCLUDE OUR GARDEN WE MUST HAVE THYME:

1. Thyme for each other
2. Thyme for family
3. Thyme for friends


WATER FREELY WITH PATIENCE AND CULTIVATE WITH LOVE. THERE IS MUCH FRUIT IN YOUR GARDEN BECAUSE YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW!

Independent AIM Member - Marilyn Wilson Price

Footprints....A New Version

Imagine you and the Lord Jesus are walking down the road together.

For much of the way, the Lord's footprints go along steadily, consistently, rarely varying the
pace.

But your footprints are a disorganized stream of zigzags, starts, stops, turnarounds, circles, departures, and returns.

For much of the way, it seems to go like this, but gradually your footprints come more in line
with the Lord's, soon paralleling His consistently.

You and Jesus are walking as true friends!

This seems perfect, but then an interesting thing happens:
Your footprints that once etched the sand next to Jesus' are now walking precisely in His steps.

Inside His larger footprints are your smaller ones, you and Jesus are becoming one.

This goes on for many miles, but gradually
you notice another change.

The footprints inside the large footprints seem to grow larger. Eventually they disappear altogether.

There is only one set of footprints, they have become one. This goes on for a long time, but suddenly the second set of footprints is back.

This time it seems even worse! Zigzags all over the place. Stops. Starts. Gashes in the sand. A variable mess of prints. You are amazed and shocked. Your dream ends. Now you pray:

Lord, I understand the first scene, with zigzags and fits. I was a new Christian; I was just learning. But You walked on through the storm and helped me learn to walk with You.

"That is correct."

And when the smaller footprints were inside of Yours, I was actually learning to walk in Your steps, following You very closely.

"Very good. You have understood everything so far."

When the smaller footprints grew and filled in Yours, I supposed that I was becoming like You in every way.

"Precisely."

So, Lord, was there a regression or something?
The footprints separated, and this time it was worse than at first.

There is a pause as the Lord answers, with a smile in His voice. "You didn't know? It was then that we danced!"

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven:
A time to weep, a time to laugh,
A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
Ecclesiastics 3:1,4.

It's not WHAT you have in your life,
but WHOM you have in your life
that counts....
Think about that!

I ASKED GOD

I asked for a flower,
He gave me a garden.
I asked for a tree, He gave me a forest.
I asked for a river, He gave me an ocean.
I asked for a friend, He gave me "YOU."

May God Bless You and Guide Your Footprints!!


Fitness By Marilyn
Independent AIM Member - Marilyn Wilson Price