Flower Gardens and Personal Growth

I was looking at my flower gardens this morning and comparing the 4 different flower beds. One is new this year. Two are three years old. One is older. They are all planted with perennials.

The new garden looks good. The plants are small with plenty of space between them. It won’t look all that much different by the end of the summer.

In the 3-year-old gardens, the plants have become much wider and taller. Many of them have sprouted off new plants. There’s not near as much space between the plants as there was when I first planted these gardens.

The oldest garden is solid plants right now. I actually need to get in there and do some thinning out.

This seems like a pretty good metaphor for how personal growth often goes. Even when big change doesn’t seem apparent, we are putting down roots. We are growing stronger. We are getting established.

Then later, the obvious growth shows up. Then even later massive growth is evident.

Napoleon Hill said, “When riches begin to come, they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.”

Much Love,

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