Weeding the Garden

"Every now and then I pause to take a good look at my progress. More and more of my garden is weeded each time I look, but each time I also find new weeds sprouting where I thought I had made my final pass with the blade."

Daily Reflections


WHAT ARE THE WEEDS of my life? When I look back at my garden, what am I seeing?

     *Worries of financial insecurity
     *Judgement of and irritation with those around me
     *Concern over faraway political contests
     *Self-criticism and self-judgment
     *An attitude of "I know best"

Those last two would seem to be incompatible, but as a friend of mine once put it, "I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex."  I don't know how much of the population that describes (more than a few, I suspect), but I know it applies to me. The solution suggested is to weed the garden, with God as my scythe.