Dish Garden Poem by Elaine Oxamendi Vicet

Dish Garden
I think that perhaps many of us are like Dish Gardens.
Stop and think about it!
A dish garden is meant to be beautiful.
But beautiful for whom?
We place different types of plants into one confined space.
With the single net result-
Stunted Growth!

Let’s look at it.
In our lives
In our relationships
Isn’t it much like a Dish Garden – Bonsai or whatever!

We put so much, oftentimes too much into our relationship
Try to do too many things with our lives
And the net result – STUNTED GROWTH!

Over water
Over Love
Over Kill!

WE NEED TO GET IT!

Nature is not like a dish garden
Neither are we.

NATURE IS FREE
IT FLOWS
IT BLOSSOMS AND
GROWS MAGNIFICENTLY

And we all want magnificent lives!
So let’s be more like the acorn.
Start with a simple concept
Master it
Nurture it
Care it
Love it

Watch it – watch us grow into OAK TREES

You know it has been said
“If you keep on doing what you have always done,
then you’ll always get what you’ve always got”.

Let us affirm to be acorns.
With a magnificent future and magnificent lives.
And take ourselves out of the dish garden.

After all GOD intended man to stretch and grow
So I affirm that I am an acorn
Planted on fertile soil
Nurtured
Cared for
And Loved
Blossoming into my OAK TREE.