In My Garden

Last fall after planting most of the nearly 500 bulbs I had ordered (not on purpose, mind you) in my rock garden, Brad got a little heavy-handed with the mulch.  This isn’t necessarily a bad thing since he blows snow up onto it (and any sand and/or ice melt from off the driveway).  So the last few days I’ve been outside pulling back the mulch from the new shoots now popping up all over the place.

There were largish areas where I could just scoop the mulch from without worrying too much about what might be underneath – either there was nothing or there were bulbs that would come up later in the season.  Then there were the areas where there were tender shoots or existing plants (like hens and chicks and stonecrop) where greater care was needed to expose them to the light and show off their beauty.

As I was carefully brushing away extra mulch from over and around the hens and chicks, it occurred to me that God works with me in much the same way as I tend my garden.  He carefully pulls back the layers to expose the beauty of His nature within me so that others may see it.  And just as I carefully remove the weeds from the garden, He works to remove the weeds in my soul that distract from His light shining through me.