Brush

With the sun shining and the temperature rising today was a perfect day to do some yard work.  Joyce and I started just after breakfast this morning to "Clean up a little bit" and kept it up for over an hour.  There is the ivy (Spanish not Poison) that has to be trimmed back along the fence line.  There are all those saplings that need to be whacked and the neighbor's wisteria vines that need to be reminded which yard to grow in.  By the way, I do a lot of trimming with my machete, it's a guy thing!

By the time we were done whacking, and hacking, and pulling, and raking we had filled up 4 trash cans as well as the bed of my S10.  Not bad for just "Cleaning up a little bit"!  Once you start doing the clean up and see the progress and the results you can't help but want to do just a little bit more.  This works in yards as well as lives.  Once we start examining ourselves, pulling up any roots of sin, raking out the dead leaves of the flesh and clearing out the brush that has been quenching the Spirit, we begin to see the great potential for growth, and plan the next trip to the garden to work the ground just a little more.


Chuck