Last Thursday was the Summer Solstice, the first day of summer and longest day of the year. This is a time of year when our gardens germinate with the seeds we planted.
How many here have planted Gardens this year? Good.
Well, we are all gardeners in that all our thoughts, words, and actions are seeds that grow into the Garden of our lives.
What have you planted in your Garden this year? Good seeds?
Jesus was a great spiritual teacher. His parable of the sower (Matthew 13:4-9) gives us God’s system on how to manifest (plant and grow) our Garden, our desires and dreams. (Assistant Minister reads the passage)
Matthew says: “Behold a sower went forth to sow.”
This means we are all the sewers of seeds, the builders of our Gardens. Our thoughts (emotions and desires), our speech, and actions are our “seeds”.
What type of seeds did you plant? Were they seeds of Kindness, Love, Joy, Peace, and Power? Or did you plant seeds of fear, hate, anger, guilt, jealousy, or greed?
When you planted your Garden, did you prepare the soil? Add fertilizer? Do you periodically water the seeds and remove the weeds, the undesirable thoughts? Or were you impatient or too busy to nurture and care for your Garden?
In One Spirit Ministries, we want to build a beautiful garden in our hearts, a beautiful garden in our yards, a beautiful garden within our communities, a beautiful garden upon our planet.
We want to realize heaven on earth while we are still on earth.
But the garden starts within because even if everyone else wants to live in a junkyard or hell, we can live in Paradise because we are using the principles first on ourselves.
We are using them to build a beautiful garden in our minds, in our motions, in our hearts, and in our lives.
So we are out here, everywhere, sowing seeds. To sow seeds, we first need to know what type of seeds to sow. If we go out to get any old seeds and throw them into our minds, accepting the ideas, and planting them in our hearts, we may grow a whole crop of weeds, thorns and stickers.
And we ask: “What happened? What went wrong?”
But you didn’t check the seeds. If some of the seed died or didn’t produce fruit, you’d be starving to death.
Whose fault is it that you bought dead seeds? Dead ideas? Dead thoughts? Or grew plants that were harmful or inedible? Who will reap the fruits of these seeds?
We are totally and completely accountable by the Law of Karma (Cause and Effect). As you sow, so shall you reap? The Law is impersonal, mechanical, and involuntary. It gives us back whatever we planted.
So, what will be the fruits of your labor? What have you sown that you will reap this year?
If you sow and you don’t like what you are reaping, you will weep and “there will be a gnashing of teeth.” RRRR…RRRR- That’s somewhere in the Bible.
Why are we “gnashing those teeth”? Because we are reaping what we don’t want. But we are the sower. So whatever we have, even if it’s terrible, it’s our crop.
But next season (which begins right now), be more careful. Get knowledge, control your thoughts and emotions, and control your Mind. Know what you are planting and how to plant it.