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So, in my attempt to control my stress level I decided to take up more outdoor hobbies. Tonight I got home, fixed some left overs (Home Made Alfredo Sauce with Fettucini Noodles) and drank some water. Which reminds me that my water is sitting on the front stoop. I’ll have to get that after I finish writing.

After dinner I was sitting on the couch thinking about forgetting my new idea of outdoor hobbies then thought I should at least try it. So I went outside and decided to cut the grass, simple. So I got the iPodTouch out and put it on shuffle and cut the grass. A half an hour later, the grass was cut.

Then I decided to keep going and get the trimmer out and trim all around the house. After fighting with it for a bit, I finally got the thing to start and was able to edge my whole lot. So I figured at this point I was on a roll and why not start pulling weeds and cleaning out the flower beds.

So I spent the next hour and half pulling weeds. It was funny as I began to pull weeds I found these awesome flowers that I planted a while back and realized that they were in bloom and looking great… but you couldn’t see them for the weeds.

There, in the mud, my awesome Odd Lots gardening gloves that I had to put two pair on just to keep stickers from going through the globes, in all my therapeutic gardening glory… God spoke.

Lately in life I’ve been pleading with God why I felt like life was going no where? Why I felt that I’ve hit some wall and there’s no door, window, or doggy door to get through it. I had yet to receive my answer when it suddenly clicked. 

Just as I was removing the weeds from the flowers in the flower beds so is God removing the weeds of my life right now. He tending to the soil and removing that which doesn’t belong and then I will be able to see the beauty that lies within. I have felt like God and I are working at life and we really are just doing that… working.

So, as I keep going I’m going to keep up this whole gardening thing. It was a nice break and I enjoyed the quiet while working. Maybe take a step back from your life and take a long hard look… are you standing in the middle of a flowering field or are you in the midst of a bed of weeds?

Night,
- JM

(Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve wrote something meaningful…)