Time Spent Gardening

Are there any gardening friends out there? I started out with great zeal this spring with cleaning flowers, planting new flowers, and once again attempting my hand at growing vegetables. Well, so far so good. Nothing has died - YET. I even have a few green tomatoes. We will see if they ever turn red. There are many days when I really have to talk myself into going out to water everything. It seems like it takes forever and on top of everything else in the day - sometimes I pass till tomorrow. Then I go out and apologize as I over water the next day. Oh well, I'm trying.

This last week as I looked around the flower beds by the pool, it seemed like weeds had just about taken over again. How does this happen? They grow so much faster than the flowers. I remembered passing by a few without taking time to bend over and pull them when they were just starting up. Hmmm... probably should have taken care of them while they were small.

Well, the other morning I could look at the weeds no more and headed out early to remove them. I got down and started pulling. Wow, there really was more than I imagined so I spent quite a while down on my hands and knees. Funny how it works that God speaks to us when we are on our knees in his creation. He reminded me how much easier it would be to get the weeds out when small and not rooted deeply in the soil - to take time daily to check as the weeds pop up and get rid of them before they multiply.

How many times in life do we let little things grab hold and take root in our lives that are outside of what God wants for us. We ignore his Spirit as it checks us to stop. We get involved and bogged down in bad choices and it becomes a way of life and sometimes it takes us a while to see the effects of these choices and then we cry out to God for deliverance and wonder why he seems so far away. If only daily we took time to spend in God's presence allowing him to be the master gardener that he is - pruning us and watering us so that we grow to our potential in him.

Proverbs 4:23 (NLT) Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of
your life.
1 Chronicles 22:19 (NLT) Now seek the Lord your God with all your heart and soul. . . .

Help me Lord to walk with you DAILY and allow you access to all areas in my life to prune and shape as only you know how to.

~Debbie~