Song Details
Song name: "My Little Garden"
© January 01, 2003
Recordings: No recordings available
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© January 01, 2003
Recordings: No recordings available
Connect: What does this song mean to you?
Lyrics 
Verse:
Outside my house there is a pretty little garden
It's where my problems all find a place to park in
So I don't take them far or near with me.
People wonder why it is I'm always smilin'
Maybe it's because I'm always pilin'
My problems in a bush that keeps them for free.
Every now and then I think there is a problem too big
Still my little garden keeps them all well hid
My little garden welcomes all my problems in.
My little garden might not be a bunch of flowers
It's God's gift to me for fifteen billion hours
With a smile I can face life alive again.
Refrain:
But how long can I run away?
And how much more can my favorite little garden take?
I walk out my door,
And make way to the garden
I reach inside and all I find
All that I left in there is there no more!
Outside my house there is a pretty little garden
It's where my problems all find a place to park in
So I don't take them far or near with me.
"My Little Garden" written by Ryan Kavalsky, © January 01, 2003
Outside my house there is a pretty little garden
It's where my problems all find a place to park in
So I don't take them far or near with me.
People wonder why it is I'm always smilin'
Maybe it's because I'm always pilin'
My problems in a bush that keeps them for free.
Every now and then I think there is a problem too big
Still my little garden keeps them all well hid
My little garden welcomes all my problems in.
My little garden might not be a bunch of flowers
It's God's gift to me for fifteen billion hours
With a smile I can face life alive again.
Refrain:
But how long can I run away?
And how much more can my favorite little garden take?
I walk out my door,
And make way to the garden
I reach inside and all I find
All that I left in there is there no more!
Outside my house there is a pretty little garden
It's where my problems all find a place to park in
So I don't take them far or near with me.
"My Little Garden" written by Ryan Kavalsky, © January 01, 2003
Description
Verse 1:
When I get home from a long and tiring day, I does me no good to take it out on those who mean so much to me. There is no reason to bother them with my own petty grouchiness, so here's what I do about that: I put my grouchiness in a 'garden' outside my house so that I can go on without dragging my friends and family down with me! Even when I think the concern is too big to keep in storage, my 'garden' manages to find room for it to stay. This 'garden' is not really the type of garden that we might see on a front lawn per say, but a gift from God to help calm my life, and let me live.
Refrain:
After enjoying my friends' and family's company for a while, I am now ready to head back out into the world on my own. On the way out, I pass by this 'garden', and reach in to pick up where I left off before. I look everywhere, and my grumpiness has completely disappeared from the 'garden's grasp! I guess it wasn't anything worth being upset about in the first place!
Overall:
I am sometimes worried that this song passes the message to run away from your problems, but let me assure you, it does not do such a thing! I know just a well as anybody that when problems build up, they will eventually explode and cause some serious damage. 'My Little Garden' is really about how there are so many really small things that confront our daily lives and get us down. If we give these things to God, He will sort them out and give back what is worth the glum. Chances are, God will quickly discard whatever it was that you 'thought' was a problem, because people tend to make big deals out of nothing.
Proverbs 3:6:
"In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."
"My Little Garden" written by Ryan Kavalsky, © January 01, 2003
When I get home from a long and tiring day, I does me no good to take it out on those who mean so much to me. There is no reason to bother them with my own petty grouchiness, so here's what I do about that: I put my grouchiness in a 'garden' outside my house so that I can go on without dragging my friends and family down with me! Even when I think the concern is too big to keep in storage, my 'garden' manages to find room for it to stay. This 'garden' is not really the type of garden that we might see on a front lawn per say, but a gift from God to help calm my life, and let me live.
Refrain:
After enjoying my friends' and family's company for a while, I am now ready to head back out into the world on my own. On the way out, I pass by this 'garden', and reach in to pick up where I left off before. I look everywhere, and my grumpiness has completely disappeared from the 'garden's grasp! I guess it wasn't anything worth being upset about in the first place!
Overall:
I am sometimes worried that this song passes the message to run away from your problems, but let me assure you, it does not do such a thing! I know just a well as anybody that when problems build up, they will eventually explode and cause some serious damage. 'My Little Garden' is really about how there are so many really small things that confront our daily lives and get us down. If we give these things to God, He will sort them out and give back what is worth the glum. Chances are, God will quickly discard whatever it was that you 'thought' was a problem, because people tend to make big deals out of nothing.
Proverbs 3:6:
"In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."
"My Little Garden" written by Ryan Kavalsky, © January 01, 2003