Summer blooms
I love "deadheading". And no this in no way relates to anything involving the band the Grateful Dead or any of their fans. I'm not that old I'm referring of course to the act of removing a flower or bloom that has started to die off, allowing it reproduce more and more flowers. I don't know why but it's one of the reasons I enjoy having flowers. I could pass strangers plants and want to deadhead their flowers. I could be out in a public place and notice when a plant needs to be deadheaded. I hate for a plant to miss it's opportunity for new growth by missing it's deadheading window.
Recently I was lost in thought as I was deadheading the plants in my berm out front. I was imagining how the flowers I was pruning back would multiply and become more beautiful. It caused me to recall the scripture in John 15: 1-2 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit." I returned recently from a mission trip with my middle child and we spent the week being reminded of how Jesus is the vine and we are the branches and what it means to bear good fruit. I wonder if the Lord gets as excited about "deadheading" the old in me? I wonder how much it troubles Him to see us miss opportunities to shed the things that aren't bearing fruit and pass up the chance to bear more fruit.
Sometimes the pruning God does in my life is uncomfortable and I resent it. But when I compare (and actually it's His comparison) deadheading my flowers to the pruning God does with me, I actually feel excited. What an awesome design that He would rid us of the things that aren't serving us well and by doing so make way for greater things and more of it. People should spend more time in the garden.
Recently I was lost in thought as I was deadheading the plants in my berm out front. I was imagining how the flowers I was pruning back would multiply and become more beautiful. It caused me to recall the scripture in John 15: 1-2 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit." I returned recently from a mission trip with my middle child and we spent the week being reminded of how Jesus is the vine and we are the branches and what it means to bear good fruit. I wonder if the Lord gets as excited about "deadheading" the old in me? I wonder how much it troubles Him to see us miss opportunities to shed the things that aren't bearing fruit and pass up the chance to bear more fruit.
Sometimes the pruning God does in my life is uncomfortable and I resent it. But when I compare (and actually it's His comparison) deadheading my flowers to the pruning God does with me, I actually feel excited. What an awesome design that He would rid us of the things that aren't serving us well and by doing so make way for greater things and more of it. People should spend more time in the garden.
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