Character, the Garden of the Lord

We are returning to Eden through this devotion. that Eden described in the first chapters of Genesis--- the plenty of the Lord. Every time you “contemplate the facts of life from the highest point of view," you are cultivating that garden of the Lord within you, your blissful state, your union with God. You can bring forward that Eden-consciousness by simply remembering it, putting fresh plants into it and cultivating it. If there be weeds in it, fears, doubts or unspirituality, or a serpent still among the trees of subtle suggestion of something else beside God’s good, it is in your power to lift that serpent up and to redeem the weeds. As Emerson says, “A weed is only a flower whose use has not been found.” When you have unworthy thoughts or suggestions that do not belong to the Eden peace, instead of finding fault with yourselves, by saying, “How can I have such thoughts?” rise up and give them to the Spirit, and declare the truth, “I am pure, I am true, I am divine,’ and your weeds will come under the hand of a spiritual Burbank, who knows how to find use for weeds and to cultivate the best in all.

Seed Thoughts

One way to practice concentration is to see thoughts as seeds and, if you desire certain thoughts, take them and deliberately plant them in your mind. Some seed you have to watch over very carefully, very tenderly, that they may root and start growing. A strong stream of water must not play upon them,