Garden of the Soul

"Every flower blooms at a different pace."

Suzy Kassem

How anticlimactic it would be if we were all blooming flowers that piqued at the very same time.  Even if we were the same plant but different colors, life would be an explosion of color and then what? As gardeners of life, we would miss so much and yet be overwhelmed.  How colorless the remainder of life would be.

As gardeners of life, we have the ability to bring numerous colors into our world.  One person may be content with a Bonsai plant where another fills an entire yard with all the old favorites like lily of the valley, peonies, holly hock, and lilacs. 

What makes us decide how our garden will be?  How do we decide on the landscape design?  Are we willing to pull the plant that fails to grow and replace it with a sturdier specimen?  Will we neatly align the colors or will we have a wildlife approach with colors randomly sprouting everywhere? Our personal gardens are created by the beauty which resides within the garden of our colorful soul.