too many left to go!!! Anyone want to organize a weed your friend's gardens day? We could all travel each day to help out someone else. Many hands make light work?!? Right?!? Our backs would be "killing"us but oh, how nice to have a clean garden for awhile! Plus, the fellowship would be welcome. This time of the year can be so wonderful and horrid at the same time. The beauty of new life and then the hard, hard work it takes to keep it up.
Yesterday, my goal was to make this garden "weed-free". I was able to accomplish it but I have to say it wasn't too much effort on my part. This area has been a garden since before we moved here and it doesn't get too bad if you can stay on top of it. I think it took less than 2 hours to work it until clean. I attempted to work up the back garden and 2 feet into the beet row I look down and think 48 feet to go and I'm already tired of this. I did give up, partly it was 9:30 p.m. and I thought the kids should be getting to bed. Today, it is raining and I thought oh, great, I'll really get moving on the basement and clear out some things. Same story as the 48 feet to go, I can do about 10 minutes and then it is too much and I gladly find other things to do like watch a Little House on the Prairie with the kids! :) That makes me happy.
I've been thinking that my prayer life and Bible time can take a back seat to regular life. After all I am just so busy and I have to do laundry and dishes, right? I have to feed my kids and spend time with them, right? I have to weed the garden because I'm providing for my family, right? When I don't find time for the Lord I find my day can go pretty good but as the days pass and I haven't found time for Him, my week can go downhill. I get impatient and things "bug" me that didn't before. How many of us are willing to turn on our favorite show or do a chore we don't really care for instead of reading the Bible or talking to the Lord? I am a work in progress just like that back garden. I may never get that one weed-free but thankfully the Lord understands that I'll never be "weed-free" either and he takes me just as I am, one day at a time. I don't have to feel guilty and dwell on my past mistakes because there He is forgiving me and giving me another day. I did say I don't have to dwell on past mistakes but let me tell you I surely do. I have to continually give them back to the Lord. Happy gardening!
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