For the first time in a couple of years, I watched "The Secret Garden" this evening. It is a dark movie, and I never really enjoyed it as a younger child, but I got in the mood to watch it and so did tonight. I enjoyed it this time more than I have in the past, I believe. There are lessons throughout that movie, and I picked up on several of them as I watched. If they remain in my mind, I will share them with you, but for now, I want to share one scene with you. While working in their secret garden, Mary Lennox, Dickens, and Collin are talking and the old gardener, Ben Weatherstaff, who is helping them makes the comment, "Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow." In the following scene, Mary speaks with Collin about this comment:
"I'm just thinking about what Ben Weatherstaff said about roses and thistles; he was talking about us."
"About us?" asked Collin.
"Yes. Ugly thoughts are like thistles, and beautiful thoughts are like roses. While my head was filled with ugly thoughts, I didn't have room for pretty ones. I was mean all the time. As long as you thought about a lump growing on your back, you were nasty and rude."
"Thistles and roses..."
"Mm-hmm, thistles and roses."
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