Our gardens can be a place of toil or beauty. When we step outside, how we choose to see the garden affects us.
The weeds are present regardless. So too are fresh buds, the myriad colours of green, the sound of wind in trees, the feel of a breeze on our skin, the warmth of the sun touching our bodies. It is the same garden. Yet how we live in it changes our lives, our freedom to be.
We will still need to pull those weeds. But it can be an act of toil, or it can be an act in which we create space for new planting and growth. In both instances, we may be tired when we are done. But in one we can look upon the freshly turned soil and biomass in the compost pile and smile. In the other, we will just be hot and bothered.
Choose the beauty each time you step outside. It is the same garden, but we are richer for our choice.
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