I keep finding myself outside, planting. Planting flowers, buying more plants and flowers, to plant. I get great joy from making my patio beautiful. My shade garden also makes me happy. The joy comes from the planning and planting, the taking care of the plants. And later, joy comes when I look at my hard work and see the beauty.
Planting a garden, or planting a container garden, is hard work. But the payoff is beauty. Nurture your creation and your creation will nurture you.
“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” -Liberty Hyde Bailey
Take out the words garden and plants, from the quote above, and insert any word that describes your passion, your craft, or anything you care enough about to nurture. Nurture your creation.
Planting
I like my surroundings to be beautiful. This always gives me simple joy. Beautiful to me, may look completely different from beautiful to you. And please note, beautiful is not perfect. Beautiful does not look perfect to me.
I have weeds. I am pretty sure most of us do. Weeds can be pretty, too. Right?
When I have taken the time and effort to work hard on something, I appreciate its beauty. The simple beauty of my hard work makes me smile.
This is true in my writing, in my decorating, and even in my cooking. Have you ever prepared a dinner, that was so delicious and looked so good, you smiled with pride?
Creating something, and enjoying your creation, is a form of self-love. No matter what the creation is. The expended effort comes from within. You care enough about something to put the sweat and strain into it. The sore muscles afterwards cause the love to triple, causes the pride and the smiles. Blood, sweat, and tears cause the smiles when you look at what you have created.
Nurture your creation, and your creation will nurture you.
“It is the labor that causes the fruit that causes the smile.” -Dedra Davis
When you enjoy what you are working on, it isn’t work at all, right?
Writing
If you know me at all, you know I love to write. I have great joy for creating a blog or an article to be published. I not only have this love, and feeling of being proud, in my writing, I have it in my plants. This pride also comes alive in my gardening. It’s the fruit of my labor.
“We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us.” -Jenny Uglow
When we work hard at something, no matter what it is, we have pride in the accomplishment. We have love for the outcome, no matter what it is. Even when it is something that is no fun at all.
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With planting flowers and plants in the spring, the deed itself is wonderful. I love shopping at nurseries for the perfect flower, the perfect plant, for the specific place I will plant it. I love container gardening and I always end up with too many. Every year, I say I am not going to overdo it, but every year, I do. I keep buying more. I buy too many flowers, so I must go buy more pots and that inevitably ends up with me buying more plants. (But, in August, when it feels like the surface of the sun outside, I start regretting all the plant purchases.)
I wrote about this in Unread Magazine.
“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” -Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
My love for growing pumpkins grew two years ago. I had to work at my pumpkin propagating. The labor of love for the pumpkins stemmed from this. Literally. I had to self-pollinate my pumpkins due to no bees. I loved those orange orbs and I was so proud of each one that matured. God and I made them. Not the bees.
Again this year, I am trying to grow pumpkins. I have a pumpkin patch already. The vines are healthy and have begun to bloom. And I am excited.
I am also praying for bees.
This year, my spring planting of flowers and plants has interrupted my writing. Not sure why, but it has. Perhaps it is because we are having a longer, cooler spring. Texas springs can sometimes last only a week or two. But here it is April and still cool out. I have been outside planting and not inside writing. This developed a writer’s block and a blank computer screen. I actually call this a writer’s don’t.
I told myself I can write in May. For now, I’ll plant.
Or, like today, I can write about planting. (It’s a compromise.)
Nurture Your Creation, And Your Creation Will Nurture You Click To TweetI hope for you a labor of love, expended effort. I hope for you a creation that brings smiles. I hope for you pride in your work. Nurture your creation!
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