I know this is a classic, but if for some reason you aren't familiar with it, it's about a young girl who began the story very self-absorbed having been brought up in India always being waited on....then her parents die and she is sent to live with her uncle. While there, she discovers the secret garden and a hidden sick boy. Both she and the boy are changed as they work and grow in the garden so that their lives and personalities are a mere shadow of the past.
The only section I didn't really like was about "Magic". They go into it quite a bit, chanting positive phrases over and over. They don't quite mean it like a spell or anything, more like the power of positive thinking. I do agree with their underlying point that what we think does have a significant effect on who we are. Here is a quote towards the end that sums it up:
Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable
or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in
time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two
things cannot be in one place.
Eph 4:22-24 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Fun with fondant - quite interesting stuff
