Weeds and Wisdom
June 8, 2010
Discernment, I think some people are just born with it, for others it has to be taught and nurtured. When praying for our children, perhaps the two greatest qualities would be humility and wisdom!
This young lady, all of 19 years old, has such discernment, and it is nothing that I can take credit for, it is of the Lord. I hopped over to her blog today to read something she wrote last week. She will be a great wife and mother one day! Enjoy!
Weeds and Wisdom
They go together, like a needle and thread.
You start with nothing, except a few seeds and some dirt.
You have help setting up your structure, your foundation.
You work. Weed out the bad influences, fertilize and water.
You train. This vine goes up, that plant is tied straight…
You completely disregard the lady who says this plant doesn’t have a chance. It’s a clearance plant. $0.10. It won’t even make it home. Yet you plant it in good soil, take extra special care of it and you wait. Three years go by, not a flower. Then one day you walk out side and there it is smiling at you. The most radiant flower you have ever seen.
The grape vine everyone laughed at you for planting. “We’re moving.” “It’s not the right ground.” “There isn’t enough sun.” “It takes five years for a grape vine to mature. A lot can happen in five years.”
Yet there it is, growing beautifully over a trellised walk way, offering shade
and covered in tiny grapes.
Then one day you leave it, the whole garden to fend for it’s self. Yes, the plants live, but big strong weeds grow up around them, choking out their very existence. Rain doesn’t come and the leaves begin to shrivel up. They need you. Before their branches grow awry and their life is covered in weeds. They need you.
Lord, let me remember these lessons You are teaching me, Write them on my heart so I remember how important it is to not only keep the garden that is my soul, but to be learning now how to tend the plants that will someday be my children, in the garden of my home.
In the garden of my home…
(Someone catch me, I’m swooning 
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Comments (2)
I love it! Let’s not let the weeds in when these little vines turn ” kindergarten age” … nor sweet sixteen for that matter! But let’s nurture and weed and water and train …(and PRUNE!) even as they mature so they will bear fruit; more fruit, and MUCH fruit!
It’s a cold, hard world out there, and there’s no shame in “greenhousing” young plants til’ someday, someone… falls in love with that lovely plant, pays the price, and takes it home to GROW…
I agree!