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Patricia
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since 2003-04-06

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Missouri

0 posted 2004-07-05 02:29 PM

Choosing My Garden

I sow seeds in my mind, garden, my own.
Now lilacs of peace and roses have grown.
Though weeds still spring from a life’s daily woe,
I pluck them from mind before they can grow.

My spirit is pleased by fruit of my thought,
Sending love and peace where battles were fought.
Divine now my garden, gold now my heart,
I bloom in Eden of which I am part.

My field once barren has now overgrown,
Filling my soul with a joy never known.
Yet a spirit in love cannot be bound.
So, I send to you God’s peace I have found.

Inspired by this excerpt from
“Lord Let Me Be An Instrument Of Thy Peace”

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.

-Saint Francis Of Assisi

Remember, one chooses his/her garden (thoughts).
May you always plant roses and lilacs.

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

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Realms of Light

1 posted 2004-07-05 02:58 PM

~ and you have planted divine roses and lilacs in your lovely garden!

Exceptionally elevating!

EA

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

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Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2004-07-05 03:21 PM

Patricia
A lovely write, enjoyed.

Bill Charles
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since 2000-07-11

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highways, & byways, for now

3 posted 2004-07-05 03:23 PM

Patricia - roses and lilacs are my favorites...

BC

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

4 posted 2004-07-05 03:47 PM

Inspirational!

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

5 posted 2004-07-05 04:14 PM

Patricia, this is SO inspiring and uplifting.
I needed to come to PiP and read this today.
Thank you so much!

~Smiles & hugs, Nancy~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain ~

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

6 posted 2004-07-05 06:51 PM

Patricia~
Such lovely, lovely thoughts ...
that's just how I tend my garden~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

noles1@totcon.com

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

7 posted 2004-07-06 02:26 AM

I must kill my weeds first

BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

8 posted 2004-07-06 04:02 AM

I sow seeds in my mind, garden, my own.
Now lilacs of peace and roses have grown.
Though weeds still spring from a life’s daily woe,
I pluck them from mind before they can grow.

It's so good to read your wise and wonderful poetry again.

I've missed them, and you Patricia~

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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Listening to every heart

9 posted 2004-07-06 08:41 AM

You are inspired, and quite well...by St. Francis...

quote:
Though weeds still spring from a life’s daily woe,
I pluck them from mind before they can grow.

Excellent!

Ericc
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since 2003-01-31

Posts 4178

10 posted 2004-07-06 01:00 PM

My favorite...combined with your beautiful words...wonderful!

Eric

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

11 posted 2004-08-13 12:21 PM

Enjoyed...was watching a Christian program (Robinson) today in which they said that attitude can open the door for diseases...always pays to have a positive attitude...James

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