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What I See in a Weed
By Doneta Casey
Outside my back door, hanging from the awning, are two birdfeeders. I have given up on using them as birdfeeders, they are just decorations. Even though they both have lids, the seeds still get wet, and become a solid mass. The seeds will not come out the bottom so the birds can get them. I have a hanging flowerpot there as well, and after the flowers died, and the snows started, I turned it into a birdfeeder. I just poured the birdseed on the dirt! Of course, you know what happened in the spring. Some of the seeds started to grow. Well, the birds didn't need the seeds now, and I'm a lazy person anyway, so I didn't pull the weeds out of the pot, and I'm glad I didn't.
As an aside; there is plenty for birds to eat in spring, and summer, but I still give them, heels of bread, (we don't like them,) stale bread, buns, cookies, cake, and cornbread. Birds seem to like cornbread the best. They eat that first!
Now back to the weeds. I'm happy they are growing where I can see them out my back door, when I am sitting in my dining room. Where I sit most of the time when I'm not working on the computer.
What I see in these weeds is the Wonder of God! The seeds were not planted into the soil, but their will to survive was so strong that they started growing with very shallow roots! Compare that to a new Christian taking their first weak step of faith by being baptized. They both have the determination, and desire to become all that God intended them to be!
These weeds grew into a nice green broadleaf grass. The blades, being flexible, were able to bend with the flow of the wind, and so were able to weather the storms. Do you go with the flow, and weather the storms, or do you lose your temper, and break under the weight of adversity?
The tall blades of grass arched over in an arc, and reminded me of rainbows, and rainbows make me think of the promises of God.
Now that fall is here, the weed is changing color. It is a pinkish yellow. It has a bloom of sorts. The bloom is a greenish white, soft, fuzzy, elongated, thing with seeds in it. This is the power of God's creativity showing. When you finish one goal, there will be another!
The weed is not dead yet. Some of the blades are turning red. Proving that even in dying there is beauty if you have done your job well.
When it dries up, and becomes brittle, I will pull it out, and put it in my garden where it will be plowed under to become food for my tomatoes next year. Then I will put birdseed in the pot again through the winter. Thereby starting the cycle all over again.
A related story: There was a vine growing in my rose bush. I pulled most of it out, but where it did not interfere with the rose bush, I let it grow. On the side I pulled out, it could only have grown as high as the rose bush, and trellis, but on the other side, it found the drainpipe on the side of the garage. There it grew all the way to the roof! I didn't know what it was until it bloomed. It had a very pleasant sweet smell. It was Honeysuckle! Sometimes in life we are uprooted, or blocked from taking a path we are on that we thought was the best one for us, and we wonder why. We may even get angry, and discouraged, and want to give up! But, look around; there is a fork in the road. We take the other path, and it leads to more success, and we enjoy it more than we did the other one. It's Honeysuckle!
They say take time to stop, and smell the roses, and that, we should, but maybe we should take a closer look at some weeds too!
About the Author
Offered with Love for You: Doneta Casey © all copyrights reserved
Doneta Casey has several websites these are two of them:
Heaven's Rainbow, an online store specializing in Angels,
and Religious Gifts, and The Happy Tree,
the best new Christmas Song of the Season.
http://www.heavensrainbow.com
http://www.cafepress.com/thehappytree
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