Lessons from the Garden: June 2019 – Pain Cycle

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It’s not just about the pain

A garden is hard work. It is shoveling, digging, weeding, planting, mulching, watering many many times over.

A garden is also beautiful and delicious and rewarding, if you remember to  take a moment to see it.

Sometimes we get caught up in the work, the anxiety of all we have to weed, the thought that we just need to work harder and harder.
We lose vision for the beautiful fruits in the garden.

Instead of enjoying the fruit of our labor, it just rots away as we work on something else – only ever seeing the problems needing attention.
Inevitably someone else comes along and takes for themselves what we neglected.
They make the most of their find and we can’t even see it.

When we finally look up we see nothing, but the decaying rotting land that we worked so hard to make.
We become depressed and think that if we work harder one day we will get the fruit.
Continuing the cycle.

The truth is, that we won’t ever see the fruit, no matter how much of it there is if we are always focusing on the work.

Please, Please! Look up sooner.
See the fruit in your world and appreciate it before it rots away.

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In one very rough week of 2018 I lost my job and found out that I had aggressive breast cancer. Part of my healing path included documenting the lessons that I found in my garden when I was forced to slow down.