I mentioned in the
blog last Friday (5/11/12 – “It’s
A Beautiful Morning!”) about the time that I spent working in the garden
cleaning up the old plants and planting the new ones. It is amazing how a little care and a few
shovels of fresh, nutrient soil can change the life pattern of a plant. Two of the older plants that I tended to were
an artichoke that had produced quite prolifically last year but seemed to have
gone through the winter looking worse for the wear and a rather decrepit
looking rosemary bush.
I trimmed off all
the dead and/or sickly looking growth on the artichoke, raked away any fallen
leaves and other debris from around its stem, added a fresh layer of the new
garden soil and then turned it under around the plant. The rosemary bush wasn’t quite as
simple! It had outgrown the pot it was
planted in and no amount of water and fertilizer could pull it out of the
throws of death. This plant needed more
drastic measures. Therefore I removed
the plant from the pot and proceeded to chop away at the entanglement of
roots. From there I dug a hole in the
garden area near the artichoke, filled it with the good soil and tenderly
inserted the needy herb bush.
What was truly
amazing was the transition that the two plants made overnight. When I went out the very next morning I was almost shocked to see both plants standing upright and tall, looking healthy,
well nourished and ready to produce a harvest!
While I expected the plants to make a turnaround (well… I wasn’t real sure about the rosemary!), I did not expect it
to happen overnight! Today, some five
days later, the plants are thriving and even the tiny little artichoke fruit
that was struggling previously on the withered plant has begun to enlarge and
show signs that it will make its date at our dinner table in a week or so!
Yesterday I
compared a good garden soil to the ground of God’s love (See; Ephesians 3:17 in the God’s Word translation).
His soil is rich with mercy, healing and goodness. (Ephesians 2:4) Like
my results in the garden, God’s soil has the ability to transform a dry,
unhealthy and decrepit looking life (physically,
spiritually, mentally and emotionally) into that of a strong, well nourished and productive
individual. And while the results may
not be completed overnight, the person who plants themselves deep into God’s
love will definitely notice an instant difference that will compel and empower
them to move on in the enrichment of His ways.
Yes it might take
some work. It might take some “pruning away” of the old growth and
some necessary thinning of any roots that have become impacted in the old hard
soil of your former way of life. But
again, the expected results and the gains that the new soil provides are well
worth the toil and any discomfort that accompanies the process of change. You know… you just can help but prosper in
the garden of God ’s love when you have the best gardener in
the universe tending to your every need!
Have a super
Tuesday. Stay in tune to His Word and
keep asking yourself… “What am I
expecting today!?”
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