Have you ever had a lawn or flower bed full of weeds and unwanted grass? If so then you know that you’ve got to be pulling up weeds before they overtake everything. Today was a beautiful day to be outside, so I decided to get some yard work done while I had the chance. I figured I would get those weeds pulled up before I couldn’t see the ground any longer.
It seems that if you let them grow a little, they grow a lot and spread to growing many neighbors. Soon they overtake everything and it’s so hard to get them cleared out. You can think you’re making headway and you’re really not.
While I was pulling up the weeds, a few would break off before I could get the root, so I would have to use my garden tool, dandelion digger as I call it, and push it deep into the soil so I could get underneath the root and get it all. Doing that, there’s less chance of regrowth. Plucking the whole flower, root and all is the only thing you can do to get the whole thing. And then you’ll have to either through on some weed killer or use organic weed protectant. There is truly a big process to making sure you have a clean flower bed, garden, lawn, or whatever area you might have.
Correlation to a Healthy Life
If you’ve been hurt by any issue in life, you have weeds in your life. If you don’t attend to the hurt, the pain, the trauma or the grief, this weed will continue to grow and it’s roots may get so deep into your life that it takes a long time to heal from it. Sometimes we don’t want to deal with it because of the pain, the memory, the unforgiveness, but there is nothing more painful than leaving the hurt unhealed and letting it grow deeper and deeper into your life. It affects your health, your mental health, your soul and your spirit.
As I was pulling up the weeds in my flower bed, this is exactly what God was showing me. Pulling up the weeds were like getting the hurt out of ones life. Not just pulling up the hurt, but digging into it, going deep into all the hurts and allowing God to bring awareness to every area and He heals the wounds one at a time. Never overloading your mind or heart to all of it but one step at a time. If we brought them all up at once it would probably cause us to just explode.
Pulling up each area of our life from the bottom, the root, reveals it and God heals it. Now the next step is to keep it from getting any more roots or weeds. Preparing your heart to stay healthy. Like the weed killer does to the soil, God’s Word does to the soul of oneself. You’re able to keep your mind, body, spirit healthy and whole.
I was blessed through my decision to get healthy and maintain it. I found a place that did group therapy for the issues I had been through and it was through the use of the 12 Step process. This work allowed me to begin uncovering all the areas that had been damaged and go deeper so that I go to the bottom once and for all. Learning a process to keep myself accountable and continue the process over and over until all had been revealed. The continued work still goes on today and it will until the day God takes me home. Maintaining a healthy life is the greatest gift I have given myself. The continued work also is staying in God’s Word and allowing Him to show me all areas that need to be looked at again and removing the trigger, the hurt, the old habit, whatever the problem is.
Conclusion
Maintenance is key to anything. Keeping self healthy, keeping your spirit filled up, keeping your property weed free. It’s amazing to me how God uses life to show us His ways and to give us wisdom. They are called Parables, just as He did in the Bible, He will show you in the little things that you just do.
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