LEFT UNTENDED

Before you read this blog I would like for you to look at the art work that I chose.

This is a perfect depiction of what my life has been like recently.

I'm still here but I was barely visible simply because the weeds of life had slowly over taken me.

Every spring/summer (up until this year that is) I have been vigilant in pulling the weeds from the cracks in the concrete, the bed of rocks around my mailbox and anywhere else they are unwanted.

I really have no excuse for the reason I failed to do so this year. Almost every day I walk by them I said to myself that I really needed to pull them.

Upward of four months of consistent warmer weather and what once was a nice display of river rocks became barely recognizable.

As you know I have continuously said that whatever you give your attention to magnifies. However, the opposite holds true as well.

The things you ignore, whatever is left untended, can encroach and possibly overtake you.

I needed to have a long overdue conversation with one of my children. I put it off for weeks. Each morning I woke it was heavily on my mind and I told myself that day I would bite the bullet.

Every night I climbed into bed I was upset with myself that I didn't do it, promising myself that I would the next day.

The gut wrenching feeling that I got thinking about this talk was enough to keep me from actually doing it.

For the last month we have not been home and where we were the weather was sunny the entire time.

When we returned, even without me checking the weather app, I knew it had rained here frequently.

We had a lot of wild mushrooms growing in the yard and for some strange reason I really enjoy picking them. It's weirdly satisfying to pull a mushroom from its root.

So while I was doing that, I told myself since the ground is saturated this is the ideal time to go pick the weeds.

Severals hours later, I had successfully pulled every weed from every area of my yard.

Despite having extremely dirty finger nails and brown stained fingers, I felt such relief and satisfaction.

And you will never guess what happened! I sat down and had that difficult discussion with my child.

It was in fact painful, heart wrenching, a lot of tears shed but in a strange way I think because in the natural I cleaned up overgrown weeds, it gave me the inner strength to do other things I had been avoiding.

Having that conversation was only the beginning. This is a perfect example of the Law of Inertia - an object at rest tends to stay at rest; an object moving tends to keep moving and picking up momentum as it goes!!

I adore wildflowers. They are effortlessly beautiful, they add so much contrast and beauty that I would absolutely love it if my entire yard was full of them.

Not everything that grows belongs. Know the difference between wildflowers and weeds.

YOU ARE DESIGNED TO REIGN IN LIFE

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