The Courage to Tend What Is Growing

Mango tree seedling. Photo by Ms Kimberly

This morning, as the sun rose fully over the hills, I visited my garden that is growing and stretching out to meet the world.

There is something sacred about tending what is growing.

Not just the cucumber vines reaching for their string trellis.

Not just the fences slowly being woven with green.

But the quieter growth — the kind that begins where we are not always looking.

In the compost.

Recently we noticed something unexpected there. The mango and avocado pits we had tossed aside a month ago had begun to split open. Small, determined shoots were pushing their way out, reaching for light from what had once been discarded.

So now we rescue them.

We gently pull them from the compost and replant them in the earth around the property. Small mango and avocado trees, born from scraps, beginning their own journey toward shade and sweetness.

There is a lesson in that.

At Metamorphosis GCA we talk often about transformation, but transformation is rarely dramatic. It is quiet. Patient. Persistent. It happens in the unseen places first.

What we discard.

What we release.

What we think is finished.

Sometimes those are exactly the places where new life begins.

Sovereignty begins like this — when we choose to take responsibility for what we cultivate.

Stewardship begins like this — when we recognize the potential hidden in the ordinary.

Serenity grows like this — when we trust the slow intelligence of nature and allow things to unfold in their time.

The time I spend here is teaching me something simple and humbling: growth is always happening somewhere, even when we are not paying attention. Seeds wait. Roots form. Life prepares itself quietly beneath the surface.

All we have to do is notice.

And then tend what is growing.

At Metamorphosis GCA we are doing the same thing in community. As a collective of healers, artists, and educators committed to radical positive change, we believe that external peace begins within. Every connection, every gathering, every offering sends healing ripples outward.

Sometimes the most powerful things begin in unexpected places.

Like the trees starting in the compost.

If something is quietly sprouting in your own life — an idea, a calling, a creative impulse — perhaps it is time to give it soil, light, and attention.

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Join the conversations in our community space.

Let’s tend what is growing — together.

Avocado tree seedling. Photo by Ms. Kimberly