Monday, August 8, 2016

Dear God,

They hide away all the time growing until one day they are shockingly big.  The invasive maple trees appear all the time.  They threaten all the good plants. 

When I was working along the fence row between our neighbor's house and ours pulling, ripping, and cutting down the maples, I couldn't help but wonder how bad habits develop and do the same thing to our own spiritual soul gardens.  Or small sins that are hardly detectable in the beginning but then one day, engulf.

As much as I would like to ignore some of my own erring ways, I can't, anymore than I can ignore 15' maple trees.  As I consider my own problems, I sit in the dirt in the midst of the invasive seedlings.  I can see the dirt is poor, sandy really, no real nutrients or good stuff so the things I want in the garden can grow into beautiful healthy trees.  The soil is dry.  I had failed to water giving life to what is good.  The ground had so many old roots that I couldn't imagine how anything could grow.  When I realized how much work I needed to do along the fence row, I recognized even more how much work I have to do in my own soul.

Blessed God,
reveal your truth
to me.
Clear out
all the
bad debris,
those things
that keep me
from growing.
Forgive me
for not
taking care,
using all
the resources
you provide.
I am sorry.

Love, Andrea