It is easy to roll with life, like the leaves blowing on a windy day, you can be tossed along and before you know it, time and events pass with barely a thoughtful decision. There is a problem with this approach to life however, and I am guilty, as I will explain.
I admit my garden suffers the same fate with a splash of water, sometimes containing a dose of liquid fertiliser in it, and a quick prune of anything brown (that isn’t supposed to be brown) and then, nature takes its course - doesn’t it?
Well yes, but I realise that that is not always a good thing. You see the other day I was doing just that, pulling off some dead leaves from my agapanthuses and saw a snail (and nothing like the cute picture). Now one might think that one snail is not a problem, but snails breed. My discovery led from one gastropod to another. I then fetched an empty ice cream container and stopped counting after I dropped the 60th in a growing bed of unhappy molluscs.
I do believe that over the next few days I detached over a hundred from their leafy green hideaways. The point is that if we go along with the world, we can become infested without even realising. Are we keeping a check on our spiritual gardens or letting them become overrun by snails?
I know for myself, I need to check for slimy negative thoughts that can grow into bitterness and resentment. I need to check that the decisions I am making, although seemingly small and insignificant, are based on the Word of God and His will for my life and not just a convenient or lazy choice.
As Christians we can never afford to become complacent about little slimies that want to invade and take over, and they will, if left unattended. So I am regularly on the prowl for snails in my spiritual garden, and I also check for those in my natural garden and I must say my agapanthuses are glowing.
God Bless.
Annie
I admit my garden suffers the same fate with a splash of water, sometimes containing a dose of liquid fertiliser in it, and a quick prune of anything brown (that isn’t supposed to be brown) and then, nature takes its course - doesn’t it?
Well yes, but I realise that that is not always a good thing. You see the other day I was doing just that, pulling off some dead leaves from my agapanthuses and saw a snail (and nothing like the cute picture). Now one might think that one snail is not a problem, but snails breed. My discovery led from one gastropod to another. I then fetched an empty ice cream container and stopped counting after I dropped the 60th in a growing bed of unhappy molluscs.
I do believe that over the next few days I detached over a hundred from their leafy green hideaways. The point is that if we go along with the world, we can become infested without even realising. Are we keeping a check on our spiritual gardens or letting them become overrun by snails?
I know for myself, I need to check for slimy negative thoughts that can grow into bitterness and resentment. I need to check that the decisions I am making, although seemingly small and insignificant, are based on the Word of God and His will for my life and not just a convenient or lazy choice.
As Christians we can never afford to become complacent about little slimies that want to invade and take over, and they will, if left unattended. So I am regularly on the prowl for snails in my spiritual garden, and I also check for those in my natural garden and I must say my agapanthuses are glowing.
God Bless.
Annie