🌱 Welcome to April: The Garden Within
Hello lovely souls, April feels a little different to me this year… and maybe it’s because life has been very real over here the past few days. I’m just coming through a cold, working my way through a stack of tax returns this weekend, and somewhere in the middle of all that… my little grandson turned one last week 🥹 And watching him… it really stopped me for a moment. My daughter is right in it right now. The everyday tending. The feeding, the guiding, the watching him grow from this tiny little sprout into his own little person. It’s not rushed. It’s not forced. She’s not standing there wondering why he isn’t “further along.” She’s just… showing up and tending. And it made me think about how rarely we offer that same kind of patience to ourselves. I know for me, it’s easy to look at parts of my life and think, “this should be further along by now,” especially when I’m not feeling my best or when life feels a bit full… like this weekend with tissues in one hand and numbers in the other. But what if nothing has gone wrong? What if some parts of us are still growing quietly, the same way he is… needing time, care, and space more than pressure? That’s where this month’s theme came from. I started thinking about my inner world like a garden. Not a perfect one… just a real one. Some things are growing easily. Some feel a little overgrown. And some… if I’m honest… I’ve probably been walking past, thinking I’ll get to them later. Maybe you have a few of those spots too. So this month, we’re not here to fix everything or figure it all out at once. We’re just… tending. A little more attention to what’s been asking for it. A little more patience with what hasn’t bloomed yet. A little more trust that things are unfolding, even when we can’t quite see how. Because growth doesn’t happen all at once. And it doesn’t happen because we push harder. It happens because something is cared for… consistently, gently, over time 🌿 💬 I’d love to hear… If your inner world were a garden right now, what would it look like?