June 27, 2020 www.PositiveChristianity.org presents Positive Daily Inspiration SATURDAY INSPIRATION June 27, 2020 www.PositiveChristianity.org now in our 21st year presents Positive Daily Inspiration Saturday Inspiration (Submitted with our great thanks) "Our citizenship is in heaven." Philippians 3:20 The Rose Garden There was once a woman, who, after years of work had grown a beautiful rose garden. She worked a couple hours every day, pruning, cleaning, feeding, and weeding. People would come from many miles away to see the beautiful roses. The colors were vibrant, the flowers were so big, you needed two hands to hold them. Each day nurtured and cared for. Her love showed in her garden. After many years, the effects of time took their toll on the lady and she was forced to abandon her garden and rely on her daughter for care. Her daughter did not mind. She loved her mother and felt it a great opportunity to spend time and really get to know her Mother....sort of friend to friend, instead of Mother to Daughter. They talked about many things. They shared their experiences. And the daughter learned that there was much to this great lady that she had not known. One day as they sat on the patio chatting, the daughter noticed the long neglected rose garden and felt saddened. They spoke of the garden and the daughter remarked how she used to laugh at how her mother crawled around in that garden every day, talking to the flowers, babying them like children. The Mother smiled with a tear in her eye. She told her daughter that observations are often misleading. "You see, my dear, that garden is like a life. Let me explain. Each day I would get down on my knees and thank God for each of those flowers. I thanked God for their beauty, their aroma, and the peacefulness of that garden. And I took the opportunity while down there to clean out those plants. I got rid of the bugs, the dead pedals, and leaves. I pulled the weeds so that the bushes would grow healthy and robust. I saw that garden as life. Each bush was an effort, each flower was the blessing brought forth from that effort. And it was all because God gave me the opportunity to try. And, as you can see, like life, when the garden is not tended, the bushes become wild, lanky, and heavily barbed. They tangle among themselves. Flowers become fewer and smaller, less aromatic. Until it becomes so tangled and overgrown that it no longer resembles the beautiful garden it had once been. When you saw me crawling, I was praying. When you saw me talking to the flowers, I was talking to God." We each have a rose garden. How we tend that garden will determine the beauty that it wields. But the thing to remember is this: tending the garden cannot happen until we come to our knees and get closer to the flowers. We need to take the opportunity to talk to God, give God thanks and clean out the dead weeds and pedals through positive attitude. When was the last time you got to your knees to tend your garden. "Give thanks unto God in ALL things." (Robley Martz) _____ You may know me. I am your constant companion. I am your greatest helper; and I am your heaviest burden. I will push you onward or drag you down to failure. I am at your command. Half of the tasks you do might as well be turned over to me. I am able to do them quickly. I am able to do them the same every time if that is what you want. I am easily managed. All you have got to do is be firm with me. Show me exactly how you want it done and after a few lessons I'll do it automatically the rest of your life. I am the servant of all great men and women, of course. I am servant to all the failures as well. I have made all the great individuals who have ever been great. And I have made all the failures that have ever failed. But I work with all the precision of a marvelous computer. I work with the intelligence of the human being. Be easy on me and I will destroy you. Be firm with me and I will put the whole world at your feet. What am I? I am A Habit! (Dr. Dennis P. Kimbro) POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER: I am ready, willing, and able to follow Your guidance, Lord. I follow the Psalmist who said, "Oh send out Thy light and Thy truth." I pray that my prayer fulfills my needs, known, and unknown. I know that my prayer is heard and that I am guided by infinite wisdom into that which is right, into that which is good. In Jesus Christ's name… Amen POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: The perfect life of God permeates my mind and body. 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