Pruning
This morning I trimmed a huge line of shrubs (don't know what they're called...my brain is fried right now) that are to the right of our garage, beside the sidewalk that is between our house and the detached garage on Claiborne Court. Much to my lack of knowledge, they had been growing, unattended, for almost two years. As I usually hear His voice wherever I am, but particularly when my hands are literally touching His creation, these are the lessons trimming the shrub taught me this morning. When our lives require a lot of work...God's work...He has to deal with us slowly. I knew when I looked at the shrub that there was going to be a lot of pruning. I knew what the finished product was going to look like, but I also knew that that meant a lot of layers were going to have to come off before I could get there. With almost two years of "shrubs gone wild" I could not just cut off the top eight to ten inches of growth that I knew, ultimately, wou