...without intent, planning, and nurturing.
Gardens are a result of choices of what to grow, a knowledge of how to grow it, and the hard work to set it in motion.
This week we are examining grudges and how we can host them in our heart, that is, grow a virtual garden of grudges that we tend to, making them grow into something nasty and hard to dig up.
We know grudges begin as seeds. We probably know everything we need to know about grudges--so why do they rule our homes, our workplaces, our politics and our world?
Perhaps it is because the only way to keep grudge seeds at bay is to sow deliberate seeds of love. If you have a grudge against a person with seemingly good reason, the way to offset it is plant seeds of love for that very person in your heart.
You think of them...you choose to love them. You face them...you love them through kindness and forgiveness. You talk about them...you choose loving words. This is the work of love, to resist the easy path of collecting hard feelings from yourself and others who choose to collaborate. Love seeds are the hardest to plant if they are replacing grudge seeds.
You've never seen a garden of love grow without intent, planning and nurturing.
