Center of the Garden

When I was planning my garden in our small backyard some years ago, a landscape friend suggested that I put a circle in the middle of the garden with pathways like an upside down peace symbol going from it. The pathways are no longer very clear but the circle remains. In the circle we put a statue of Mary, the Mother of God, and a birdbath. Over the years I have put perennial flowers in the circle. Recently we weeded the inside circle in the center of the garden. We, my wife and I, are not too good at figuring out what is a weed and what is a flower but after they grow we can tell. Pulling out the weeds allows the colors of the flowers to glow. Having a flower garden in the middle insures that the garden will always look good even when some of the vegetable and herb plants do not do so well.

Just like in the center of the garden we all need beauty in the center of our lives. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So if you can see beauty in all things you can live a more peaceful and joyful life. We all find it hard to find beauty in persons who are ill, poor, depressed, annoying to us, or our enemies. But all creation is beautiful if we can see deep enough. So keeping beauty in the center of our lives, like a flower garden in the center of the garden, will insure that at all times, in successes and failures, in suffering and joy, we will find beauty.

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