I'm staring out my window in extreme disapproval. The drenching rains from yesterday watered my garden for me, for which I am extremely thankful, but they also watered those pesky weeds. Those pesky, 4 foot high weeds. That I pulled not two weeks ago.
Honestly, how does a useless, harmful plant grow without any effort whatsoever while some of my carefully planted and tended vegetable plants can struggle even after all my labor? Why can't it be the other way around?
We all know that is the way of this life. It seems like evil is forever looming over good, no matter how hard we work to create the opposite effect. I rest in the fact that it won't be that way forever. But in the meantime, I'm not allowed to rest in fighting it.
I have to go pull those weeds today, no matter how many other things I have to do. While I'm doing it I'm going to think about the negative things in me that I should probably tend as well. I've been pretty sarcastic with MacGyver lately. I have been known to yell quite loudly at my children (at one particular child) while I'm trying to feed John and basically helpless to discipline. I know there are plenty more weeds in my garden, but I'm going to try to work on pulling those because they are probably the biggest at the moment.
Anyone else? Am I alone? It does seem like everyone else's physical gardens look better than mine, so it's quite possible that I'm the only one with 4 foot weeds inside as well. (Wink wink!)
Oh, and no matter what anyone tells you - baby poop turns cloth diapers yellow. It really must be rinsed off. Lessons from cloth diapering. (If I had time I could apply this to the weed analogy...)
No you are not alone. The garden outside my house has some mighty tall weeds right now, even though we weeded this weekend. I'm not sure where a couple of my tomato plants are right now. And, they are just getting worse with all this rain. It is July right???
ReplyDeleteI too have internal weeds that need to be pulled. One of my 4ft. + weeds is frustration/annoyance at the kids. Especially on rainy days, like today, they get bored. I get so frustrated when they won't find something to do and constantly bug or ask for the same thing 200 times an hour.
For your cloth diapers you can set them out in the sun, if it ever appears again, for a few hours, and it should bleach right out. I never had trouble with yellowing, but I've heard the sun is a great "bleach" for them
i've been growing the yelling weed a lot lately too... especially with the twin of the one i'm guessing you're yelling at. i've always had to work hard at not being a yeller, but noah never gave me reason to yell. i'm still waiting for ruby to give me a reason NOT to yell... ;)
ReplyDeletei've missed a lot of the sunday school class this summer about our 'words', but a friend shared with me from one of the lessons that one of the main reasons we yell or say hurtful words is because the situation isn't going as WE expected it to. it stems out of selfishness. i think of that a lot when i get upset with my kids now.
and i haven't seen my hubby much in the past few weeks, but when i do see him, he totally irritates me. i know it's an issue with ME because he hasn't been any differently. i should probably cut that weed off quickly!
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one. I appreciate both of your honesty. And yes, Amy, SS has been VERY convicting.
ReplyDeleteoh and thanks for the tip, Steph. I'm still waiting for MacGyver to make me a line (and the sun to come out) but I'm hopeful that will do the trick. They have faded closer to white again since they've been washed a couple times since. It could certainly just be my son who turns things yellow too. :)
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