Weeds

The weather has been awesome here in Southern California. Just awesome. It was calling out for us to come outside and work on the yard. I can't explain Spring Fever any better!

The whole family came out to work-- mostly weeding. I enjoyed talking with my girls so much-- what beautiful young ladies they are growing up into. We hope to plant a garden this year, a few trees, and finish landscaping our yard with flowers and ground cover. Seems pretty ambitious since pulling weeds tired us out!

I was amazed when one of my daughters compared pulling weeds to our constant battle with sin. We can pull all the weeds in the yard and no matter how good of a job we think we do, they still come back. Just like when we work hard on our sinful nature-- no matter what we do, we are still going to sin. And God knows that. And that is why he gives us grace-- and the constant reminder of weeds. Who knew we had so much in common with weeds?

Today Jonny learned how to mow the lawn. He was so proud of himself! "Look guys! I am only seven and I can mow the lawn!"

After we filled up our green can with weeds, we took a trip down to the local nursery. I could have spent hours there picking out trees, shrubs, and flowers.

But instead, I came home with weed killer to finish off the weeds that we left behind.

In a few weeks once the weeds are gone, we are going to start planting away! We can't wait!