Pulling out the weeds

My latest hobby up here in Madison has been gardening. No I haven't skipped a decade or two of my life and entered the golden years!! I heard about these community gardens all around town and I got on the waiting list for a 1/2 plot in a garden which is right down the street from me. Well, I got in and have been working my 15 ft x 20 ft of land for a good month now. When my gardening partner and I first saw the plot we both thought..."this will take some work..." because it was covered with weeds. So we got the shovel and began pulling the weeds. Pat, the garden coordinator who is a very seasoned gardener probably in her 70s, pointed out the weeds that would need to be pulled out from their roots. She explained they will just continue to grow if they are not pulled out from the root. So we worked for about an hour and thought we had done a good job.



Well, life happenned and it was still too cold to plant anything so we didn't get back out to the garden for two weeks. I didn't recognize the plot when I had come back because a majority of the weeds had grown back. Imagine that, completely leave the garden for two weeks and you find you need to start over again!! So I got the shovel again and began to do the work of weeding.



So the garden has become the Spring/Summer 2008 metaphor for my life. Somehow, someway God has gotten me to this point in my life where I just want to grow. And that has become the theme for my garden. Through the weeding process God is teaching me that is where it starts. I really want to pull out the weeds in my life, but don't really know how.

The funny thing is...I really don't know anything about gardening...and I really don't have time to sit down and read any gardening books. So it's a learning process. Really all I know how to do is pull weeds. Not so true in my own life. There are weeds that have been hanging around for years. That I might pull from the stem every now and then, but the root is still there.

Hmmmm....I guess this one will have to be continued....