So this is my husband and my first year in our house. Because of that we don't know it perfectly well yet. We were constantly surprised by new blooms (and food!) that'd grow in our yard. ![]() Because we were always getting new and wonderful surprises, we didn't want to do too much weeding and rip something out that would add beauty to our yard. That's why our "garden" now looks like this. I didn't have a very good knowledge of plants to sort through it and now I have no desire to because its overwhelming. That doesn't mean there is no maintenence. We have a few areas that were recently groomed and all I had to do was keep up with them. I knew that anything that started growing there was unwanted so I do my best to keep up with them. The other day as I was weeding our front walk way, I learned a couple of things about life and bad habits that I thought I'd write down so I don't forget. 1. little weeds/bad habits are easy to overlookThis was the area I was weeding before I weeded it. It doesn't look bad from afar. One could walk by and mistake this for a well groomed/taken care of area and assume only the things that I wanted growing there are. And for the most part that's true. I wouldn't be embarrassed for someone to see it like this but it doesn't mean it's perfect. I can't rest on the fact that it looks good today and leave it until another day. My whole life I've been told that I'm "perfect". My sister, someone I'm very close too, looks at my life from afar and sees only things that she thinks I put in place on purpose. A wonderful husband, good career, new house. But you can ask my husband, I'm not perfect. Although yes, I've worked hard and I am proud of the life I have and would not be embarrassed to invite anyone into it, I can not stay where I am now. I still have tiny bad habits that spring up that I need to keep working on removing so they do not overtake my life. 2. Even the tiniest weed needs to get removed
3. Some weeds disguise themselves as flowers
4. For some weeds, I need help.
My thought here is this: some habits that pop up are easy for us to get rid of on our own. Their roots don't go that deep into our hearts so they are easy to pull out. They are also nice and smooth and when we grab them to remove them there are no thorns to irritate the people around us that we care about, so it's easy to pull. But for the habits that are deeply rooted, or are protected by the thorns of irritated loved ones, we need help. We can't do it on our own. That may mean we need to turn to God (which I recommend always anyways). He promises to give us strength to overcome any bad habit. This may also mean recruiting a trusted peer to hold you accountable. These do not make you weak for needing them, they make you wise for doing all you can to be successful in removing these nasty bad habits. 5. Weeding is hard workMy final lesson as I stood up and stretched my back and looked over what I had done was, weeding is hard work. If you are diligent in removing every weed, no matter how small, all the way to the root, you will be sore by the end. There is no way that everyday I will have a perfectly cleared front walk way because it's too hard to do every day. But I also know that if I don't keep a close eye on it and do it frequently, it will only get harder (remember my "garden").
This too is like life. We can't be perfect. At least not all the time, and not on our own. We can't keep all the bad habits out at once. It's hard work to do. And although removing bad habits isn't the only thing required to be a good Christian, just like it's more than removing weeds to make a good gardener, it certainly will give you something to be proud of!
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