Shabbat Reading: Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden

#whatireadovershabbat Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden

I know a lot of people read The Secret Garden growing up. Not me. I came to this children’s classic for the first time as an adult—and still found the magic in it. Burnett’s tale of spoiled and forgotten kids, and how they rescue each other from themselves, is about learning that you can love and be loved. Neither is easy to do, but living takes both. That’s a lesson we never stop needing repeated. Maybe that’s why people read The Secret Garden, long after they’re grown.