Time To Cultivate

Cultivation

As spring gets closer (at least in the calendar year) it's time to take stock of what you would like to cultivate outside and get that garden planted. Every year I plant more and more perennials so they can become effortless with care. Of course, accent with annuals is just like accessorizing only in the garden.  Each year I vow to plant more rose bushes, the fussy kind, like Tiny Tea Hybrid roses and the BIG Floribundas. Anyone knows that shrub roses can grow almost by themself without tending to... so I want something different, something that requires A-T-T-E-N-T-I-O-N. What I truly long for is an English Garden look, but have to contend with what dictates and will grown in Northern VA. So each year, I try something new... with hopes to share at least a few bloom delights, regardless.  So as many of us decide is it a veggie garden, zen garden, floral garden, green space garden, it's time to cultivate.

My two news choices are here:   

Convallaria majalis Rosea
Lily-of-the-Valley

Source: http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/new-this-spring-season.html

and

Rose Abraham Darby

Source: http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/66657-product.html

With many gardening sources, you can pre-order anything and it will ship at just the right time of the season to plant, and with plenty of sun, watering and TLC,

VOILA – garden magic cultivation happenings.

However, outside garden cultivation isn’t the only garden needing attentions.

Are you Ready? What's happening with the inner cultivation? Our sacred garden?

There is no time like the present. No enrollment fee, monthly charge, no special equipment necessary. No matter how one feels, we have to get up, get dressed and show up for life. Oh yes, and do the right thing.

So, with that in mind, we have what we need at this very moment, each one of us. What is that? Our mind  (most days of course) and ability to have discipline to focus on the challenges that have been tucked away over wintertime. Who doesnt have the excess baggage of weight yes, but- even heavier -  negativeness that seems to be like a stone around our necks. Isn’t it time to do something about it?

Yes, it’s work…and so is belief in the fact of purposeful inner cultivations- our sacred self of sorts. Thinking when we purposely plan to cultivate our inner self, we no longer look in the mirror and ask ourself “What is our purpose in life”? That can lead us down a real long path of self discovery as it should. However, in short- as I like to make it simple- “ Our purpose is to become the best we can become, do the best, be our best and start over as many times as we have to period.” Our cultivation has to begin at the root of our essence and being (and I’m not talking the plant ball root or the grey roots of our hairline).



Source: http://www.gildedimagesofmaine.com/mirrors.html

Are you Ready?



 Our truths of who our mirror image reflects can’t be found in our mirror image looking back at us. We find it as we continually dig and cultivate our inner self, one step at a time, with guidance, love, perseverance, and God’s hand in the mix for CERTAIN.. We easily cultivate our outside gardens with water, sunshine, love and plenty of prunings when necessary… The inner cultivations require just as much attentions and then some.  

Simply start.  Go look in the mirror and ask:  Are you ready?  Go ahead. Get started.. No waiting for the ground to thaw out. Get cultivating - your inner self, even while your planning your new outside gardens... and both may well be ready for the newness of springtime - to smile, bloom and blossom yet once again at the magical time of re-birth. You will be amazed how just starting, creates an ease to your day, a spring in your step and hope in your heart.

Do you find yourself not even bothering to put on the light when you look in the mirror?  I'd love to hear about it.

Namaste

The Bliss of an Inner Fire

Hello! Well, where has February flown to even with an extra leap year day? I had promised myself to post, post and post, and yet, I found myself in a writer's block. How does that happen? Perhaps overthinking things too much! Much better I say to write from the heart.. as the heart has it's own inner fire to keep us warm with essential heat and love for ourself and others.

As we roll towards Spring, we may still have to turn up the embers to get us thru the last remains of winter. That is also to say, turn up our own internal flame. Remember why we are here, remember why we love and remember who we are.

I recently finished a study group regarding the book, Made to Crave Lysa TerKeurst; about satisfying your deepest desire with God, not food. http://madetocrave.org/

So much learning, so much to think about, and a take away for me was about further empowerment of who we are and remembering who we are. We were made for Victory, Greatness and to Crave not food but Crave a beloved God. If we continually fill up with the stuff we think we need, we find no room for the key of what we truly desire, the room for God to reflect our goodness and essence of self.

Lysa's blog is found here with this link: http://lysaterkeurst.com/

Have you ever looked in the mirror, yes with the lights fully on; and can say to yourself - Hey I'm beautiful and believe it? Perhaps if not, it is because we are too full of the "stuff" we don't need, the excess baggage and the issues that continue to remain unresolved; with an endless emotional struggle.Yes, surely; our mirror image never reflects what the outside world views.. But we need to be kind to ourself. Take care of of heart... and remember to love and share love from our heart.

My favorite tiny little felted heart mouse by Fairyfolk who sells on Etsy!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Fairyfolk?ref=seller_info

Blessings and Namaste.