Our garden can teach us a lot about failure. But it also provides lessons on thriving.
All gardeners fail at growing at some point. We kill plants because of too much water, too little, too much shade, too much sun. The ground is too hard, or the hole too deep. Because we went away on holiday, or to hospital. Disease and insects. Bunnies and squirrels.
Gardens are also a lot like lives - they have boundaries and are located in climates that set limitations. We face limitations through birth, family money, education, disposition, health circumstances, life events, and a variety of structural and other impacts.
And yet there are gardens everywhere that are full of richness and that feed the souls of the people living there. Regardless of the space we have, it is possible to be intentional about what we grow and to thrive despite limitations. Gardens reward our stewardship. Spaces can be transformed into places of beauty with time and stewardship. In turn, this stewardship transforms us.
We can be beautiful, despite circumstances.
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