What Ideas Do You Plant In Your Life?
Whatever you plant is what you'll get.
As we picked peas from the garden, I marveled that within only a few months, each seed I had planted had become an abundance of peas hanging from a mass of vines.
Every pea seed contained everything needed to produce stems, leaves, blossoms, and more peas.
One winged maple seed grows into a tree taller than our homes—all that tree in just one little seed.
It’s divine intelligence at work, bringing forth the abundance of Its nature in practical ways.
Every seed in nature grows to fulfill itself and to serve a wider purpose. It is part of a grand design.
An idea is like a seed. And like a seed, it contains everything it needs to fulfill itself.
Each of us is an idea of the Divine.
And like a seed, each of us contains within us all that is needed to grow into the fullness of our lives.
We do not have to create it, and we certainly can’t make it happen (although we try), but like the seeds, we do have to care for it.
Which means caring for ourselves with wisdom and kindness.
We water and feed the pea seeds. We pull weeds so the peas don’t have to share the soil nutrients and so more sun can reach them, but we don’t make the peas grow.
It would be impossible even if we wanted to because the pea has already been created within what we perceive as a seed.
If you watched us walk to the mailbox or check the garden during the summer, you would rarely see us standing up straight. We walk stooped over, pulling weeds as we go.
It helps to keep the weeds at a minimum by constantly pulling them rather than waiting for them to become so overwhelming that the task seems too much to handle.
Del jokes that if we left our long gravel driveway alone, it would only take a few years before the grass, weeds, and new trees would completely obscure it.
The urging of a seed to grow is powerful. The same urge and power exist within, and as, each of us.
You reap what you sow is a wise and true old saying.
We planted peas and got peas. We planted corn and squash, and we got corn and squash. The divine design of the infinite Mind works the same way.
In our egos, we think we are outside of that grand design. We expect something other than what we plant or spend time on to come up.
We think we have to work to make ourselves into something.
Sometimes, we plant seeds or ideas in the wrong environment and become exhausted from running around trying to make an environment that isn’t and never will be perfect.
As plants grow, they reach toward the sun. Even if we plant them upside down, they still reach toward the light.
Our natural direction is also to move toward and bloom towards the light of awareness of our divine nature. Only our perception produces the illusion that we are a separate personality.
The garden reminds us to plant only what we want to eat and share.
If you don’t like peas, don’t plant them.
This is also true for us as an idea of the Divine. We can let the idea, the seed that we call us—grow into what it is meant to be. There is no need to try to be something else.
The world tells us we want things like being rich and famous.
If you want to harvest that, plant that seed. But if you don’t, why plant it and waste precious moments of your life growing what you don’t want?
Instead, as one example, plant the seed of contentment and provision.
If we think we can be anything other than the expression of divine intelligence we represent, we are kidding ourselves and overwhelming ourselves with work and pressure.
The good news—no, the great news—is that no matter what unique expression of the divine you are, some key points will always remain true.
Because you are the idea of divine Mind, and that Mind is good and perfect, that is your true nature.
Plant that idea and expect it to grow and supply you with all you need.
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