Weed not, want not
Each fall, I gather seeds from my mother’s fantastic flower bed in the Dallas-area, but I often forget what I planted so I tend to take a wait-and-see attitude before weeding my garden. But as the latest blooms proliferated in four flower beds, I realized many of the lush plants were not flowers, but weeds. As I yanked them up and threw them aside, I thought, “How often do we give people a ‘grace period’ before pulling them up and ridding them from our lives? How much do they need to invade our lives before we cut them loose? How much water and fertilizer do we use on them before cutting them out of our lives before they choke out the good flowers or stunt our growth? Do we have a ‘wait-and-see’ attitude with people, just like we have with weeds?”I think we need to give each plant or each person a chance, but when they begin to harm and choke out your own growth, you need to step back, re-evaluate and spend time on the important things in your life; your family, your faith and yourself.
