Are you growing roses or thistles?

While reading the Secret Garden, I found this quote which says,"Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow." It means that disagreeable thoughts and agreeable or courageous thoughts cannot be in the same place. Only one will survive and stay, while the other one will be forced to be "pushed out." If you keep on pulling yourself down with lies that you think are true about yourself or keep pondering over hurt that you or someone else has done to you, then you will not be able to grow to a beautiful, courageous rose. Instead, you will find yourself stuck. Like thistles, you will be hindered by the thorns of hurt that surround your every side. But if you do allow yourself to forgive or have courage instead of being so afraid, then you be will like a majestic rose that has pushed past the thorns of her stem and has come out a daring, shining rose. This new person's light will be so encouraging to everyone around her that it will shine even in the darkest times.

So like another quote that I found in Secret Garden,"Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen."

Emily

Please have a cup of tea with me today.