AS YOU PLANT

As you plant, may I suggest the following rules for your garden planting:

Plant three rows of squash:

Squash gossip

Squash criticism

Squash indifference

Plant seven rows of peas:

Prayer

Promptness

Perseverance

Politeness

Preparedness

Purity

Patience

Plant seven rows of lettuce:

Let us be unselfish and loyal

Let us be faithful to duty

Let us search the scriptures

Let us not be weary in well-doing

Let us be obedient in all things

Let us be truthful

Let us love one another

No garden is complete without turnips:

Turn up for church

Turn up for meetings, in prayer, and Bible study

Turn up with a smile, even when things are difficult

Turn up with determination to do your best in God's service.

After planting, may you "Grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (II Peter 3:18) and may you reap rich results. Continue to count your blessings!