Parable of the Garden
A gardener looked over his weed-filled garden space, and
just shook his head. He wanted to look
good to the garden club, and knew he had to do something to save face. But, it was a big garden spot and was not
worth the effort to really try to plant the whole thing.
So, the gardener got out his lawn mower and mowed down the
weeds. Then he got out his tiller and
worked over the soil, but, just in one small corner. Then he fertilized the section he had tilled,
but just ignored the rest. The rest of
the old garden area was just ignored, except when he scowled how bad it
looked. He wondered why the rest of the
garden could not look as good as this one corner?!
The next day, the gardener bought some seed, and sowed it
very carefully in the one small corner.
It would be a waste of seed to broadcast, like a sower, the seed to the
rest of garden, obviously. He set up his
sprinkler, not caring if some of the water was wasted on the area outside his
selected corner.
After a while, the corner was in full bloom. Before long, the gardener was picking peas
and cutting okra. There were even some
tomatoes! But, the rest of the garden
spot, the area outside the corner, was a jumbled mass of weeds and thorns. He was just proud that ten percent of the old
garden looked so good. Surely the garden
club would smile on his success.
Really?!
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