Family Garden

Prodigal: What should we plant?

Me: I have a suggestion.

This is an anonymous piece

A family is like many things, perhaps most like a garden. It needs time, attention, and cultivation. The sunshine of laughter and affirmation. It also needs the rains of difficulties, tense moments, serious discussions about issues that matter. And there must be spade work, where hardness is broken loose and planting of fresh seeds is accomplished with lots of TLC. Here are some suggestions for fifteen rows worth planting:

Four rows of peas: Preparedness

Perseverance

Promptness

Politeness

Then three rows of squash: Squash gossip

Squash criticism

Squash indifference

Along with five rows of lettuce: Let us be faithful

Let us be unselfish

Let us be loyal

Let us love one another

Let us be truthful