As I am sitting here writing to you today, the sun has just decided to come out and my backyard is bright and sunny. I had been working outside for a while before lunch pulling weeds from a corner at the end of my driveway. I know I muse about weeds often, but every time I pull one out of the ground, I am amazed at the strength in its roots. Seriously, those of you who garden will know what I mean. I also have mentioned that weeds are just plants where no one wants them to be. Well…. with my neighbors putting up their fences and me wanting to put gardens along the fences, I am running into a lot of “weeds”. I also know that if I don’t get the complete root out, it will grow back in a while.
Can anyone tell where I am going with this? As I am typing this, I am thinking what can this talking about weeds be compared to in another part of our lives. I’m not sure where I am going to end up with this, but I am going to give it a try. That is the best thing about “musing”, no one interrupts me where I lose my train of thought. As I am getting older, I find a lot of interrupting goes on with conversations and sometimes it is because someone wants to compare their story to mine, or they have a different opinion, or, like myself, they are going to forget what they want to say if they don’t say it quickly!! (definitely “me”).
Let me try this:
Weeds have long, deep roots. Can we compare our faith in God to the roots that weeds have? Do we have a deep faith in God? Would we let go of it easily? I don’t think so.
Weeds have strong roots; I mean strong roots. Having strong roots are different than having deep roots. Deep roots do exactly what the word means – grow deep into the ground. Strong roots could be shorter but, so strong that the only way to get them out is to cut them with pruners. But ---- if you don’t get the whole root out the plant will grow back. How does the strong roots compare to our relationship with God? Here is where I go off the track a little bit…. Do you ever feel like God isn’t listening to you? Do you ever feel like He isn’t answering your prayers? Could that be when the strong root broke or got cut? But…. below the cut or broken part of the root is still the faith you have in God. Over time that faith will start growing again and all of a sudden that little weed will poke its head out into the sun again and see God.
I hope I made sense to one person with this musing. Our faith in God can be so deep and strong nothing will stop us from continuing to praise and love Him. We will be looking for the “sun” in hearing more of his words and guidance on how to live our lives loving Him.
This weekend I went on a long, uphill and downhill hike with Steph and my husband. It was only shown to be 1.2 miles but let me tell you it was a tough one. I am always the one who hikes the slowest and they end up waiting for me to catch up. It was a beautiful day on Friday and we were so deep in the woods (or it seemed like it) the only things we heard were birds and the crunch of our boots on the dried leaves on the trail. I enjoy a slow hike as I stop along the way to look around me. While looking at the trees and the growth around their base, I saw these pretty purple flowers that looked almost like violets but smaller. I am guessing they could be “wild violets” and they were all over the place. Well, I got home and started working in the garden today and guess what is growing in a couple of spots in my garden? Those pretty, small, purple “violet like” flowers. Now are they weeds? Are they wildflowers? I am going to leave them where they are and watch them grow. I wonder how strong their roots are? I will probably never know as I don’t plan on pulling them out…. I will let their roots grow deep and their flowers enjoy the sunshine.
Enjoy watching the plants grow in this beautiful season of birth…. even the weeds.
Let’s sing “Let All Things Now Living” and enjoy singing it….
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